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Kemmy B.

@kemmyb

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Kemmy B.
@kemmyb Sep 3, 2026, 3:08 PM UTC

My Right To Choose

As Nancy gingerly slid the hair comb into my French chignon, she patted my hair and occasionally glanced at my face to make sure the hairstyle suited me. It was my wedding day. Then Mom burst into my…

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Kemmy B.
@kemmyb Sep 2, 2026, 12:19 PM UTC

Squished Flat

I sat across from him at a candlelit table. The restaurant was beautiful, not a place I had expected him to bring me. Not a five star place but somewhere in between with a natural, calming ambience.…

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Kemmy B.
@kemmyb Aug 31, 2026, 12:07 PM UTC

Carriage

The tingling sensation moving through her tiny veins alerts her that the sun will soon be up. The forest daughter smiles but it fades quickly at the sound of a creak barely audible. It reaches her th…

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Kemmy B.
@kemmyb Aug 26, 2026, 4:24 PM UTC

I Need A Lift (2)

The Chapter Before..... _______ Shari was a fledgling, burnt to a crisp and desecrating in the belly of the Underworld when Derek's ancestors found and rescued her. It took two decades for her to she…

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Kemmy B.
@kemmyb Aug 24, 2026, 4:13 PM UTC

I Need A Lift!

As Derek crashed through a wall of wet ferns with his black cloak torn at the shoulder, he heard the distant whistle of an arrow and ducked before it pierced the branch above his head, splintering it…

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Kemmy B.
@kemmyb Aug 23, 2026, 3:28 PM UTC

Protest

Lily Cupid and Peony Cupid sat on the ledge of Maggie Knightley's office window, their wings neatly tucked behind them, wondering why the arrows of love they had shot at her and her colleague, Albert…

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Kemmy B.
@kemmyb Aug 21, 2026, 4:24 PM UTC

No Parking

After a decade in Houston, armed with her luggage and the confidence of someone who believed she remembered how things worked in Nigeria, Chioma drove calmly to shop at a supermarket. Her confidence…

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Kemmy B.
@kemmyb Aug 20, 2026, 3:12 PM UTC

Plot Hole

Athena knew something was wrong when her pen refused to write. It was no ordinary pen but a fountain pen lined with a sliver of bark from the oldest oak tree in existence. She had no memory of how it…

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Kemmy B.
@kemmyb Aug 17, 2026, 2:01 PM UTC

That Special Store

Adunni yelped, palm resting on her chest where pearl necklace had been only a moment ago. The necklace her father gifted her on the day she was born. In all her eighteen years, she only took it off f…

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Kemmy B.
@kemmyb Aug 16, 2026, 3:09 PM UTC

The Cheap Necklace

Sara alighted from her horse and ran like her life depended on it from the ramshackled house she shared with her mother to the local morgue. Chaotic were her thoughts that she didn't think her horse…

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