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iska
@iskawrites Sep 9, 2024, 1:50 PM UTC

I know you're very smart but don't count your chickens before they hatch

I had never felt so worthless. She kept rattling on about what she was going to do, buy, and explore by the time she got to the United States that my eardrums began to ache from too much listening. I…

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iska
@iskawrites Sep 6, 2024, 5:07 PM UTC

What else could be called the Domino Effect?

Who would have believed that Robert Finley would one day taste like dirt on our lips? source I grew up watching my parents being the most lovingly annoying couple there could ever be. And I mean that…

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iska
@iskawrites Sep 5, 2024, 9:57 AM UTC

How do you think the world will be different in 30 years?

With the way everything is changing on a daily basis, it is quite difficult to truly ascertain what this world would be like soon, but as I stood with my face to my window and my gaze across the land…

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iska
@iskawrites Sep 3, 2024, 3:51 PM UTC

Technology Solved My Writing Problem

The first time I took a peek at an Android phone I knew I wanted one. To me, then, it was the best invention that anyone could have produced and the fact that my mother owned one made it easier for m…

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iska
@iskawrites Sep 2, 2024, 4:20 PM UTC

Assumptions are the first path to barking up the wrong trees

I was too sure that I recognized those symptoms. She kept running to the toilet to stool and when she returned, she lay down on the bed covering herself with the printed Ankara her aunty had handed o…

234 upvotes 15 replies $3.15
iska
@iskawrites Aug 30, 2024, 3:31 PM UTC

Things are not always what they seem

He stood at the river bank and silently cursed the day he knew Harod. Five hundred years of servitude to his great-great-grandfather, great grand father, grand father, and then his father, and yet, h…

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iska
@iskawrites Aug 29, 2024, 1:44 PM UTC

Please learn to drink in moderation

I don't think I have seen a more perfect description of embarrassment. I went over to my girlfriend's place to celebrate with her family since she called me that her father just got a car and they we…

49 upvotes 5 replies $0.96
iska
@iskawrites Aug 28, 2024, 11:45 AM UTC

Have you ever lost a friendship that meant a lot to you?

There is a certain loneliness that comes with losing friends during adulthood. Sometimes you just outgrow them and other times your values change with time and you people have to tear apart. This was…

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iska
@iskawrites Aug 27, 2024, 11:59 AM UTC

The two should work hand in hand

Deciding which would be a better way to stay in shape is tricky but for me, dieting is a no-no. I believe everything should have a balance, while it is a no for me to deprive myself of certain foods…

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iska
@iskawrites Aug 26, 2024, 6:13 PM UTC

My village people were out to take their pound of flesh

I woke up to a throbbing headache. The day before, it seemed that everything was working against me and I didn't just know what to do. I know that disappointments come from time to time but when it c…

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