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@terjix

Hopeful romantic, love enthusiast, always a writer

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@terjix Sep 29, 2025, 9:26 AM UTC

When Change Starts From Within

Change has always been one of the most terrifying and thrilling experience in my human existence. I often resist it, but at the same time long for it and want to embrace it. One thing about change is…

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@terjix Sep 23, 2025, 12:12 PM UTC

The Truth Saves

IS IT BETTER TO KNOW THE TRUTH, EVEN IF IT HURTS? Yes, after some of my past experiences, I think the truth is what really matters. Truth saves. There are situations where you think lying is the best…

101 upvotes 4 replies $1.28
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@terjix Sep 3, 2025, 2:39 PM UTC

Na Your Fault

Ifeanyi was six the first time his father told him he had killed a woman. Not just any woman, his own mother. She had died immediately after birthing him. The nurses tried to coax life into two bodie…

649 upvotes 9 replies $1.70
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@terjix Aug 19, 2025, 10:01 PM UTC

Turning 21 || LOH#251

Today, I turned 21. I have always regarded 21 as the age where life becomes more serious, more purposeful. And honestly, it feels like it. I feel a pivot. A mental change. A becoming. During the last…

35 upvotes 13 replies $0.32
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@terjix Aug 12, 2025, 2:30 PM UTC

Red Earth And Silence

The first thing Adam noticed as he drove through Nsukka was the scent of the air. The breeze was unchanged—warm and fragrant— with the smell of roasting corn mingling with that of ube and goat meat p…

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@terjix Aug 1, 2025, 8:00 PM UTC

That Elusive Butterfly

Yesterday, on my way back from work, I broke down in the bus and let a tear or two slip from my eyes. I felt horribly and utterly alone and I was silently screaming for someone to truly see me. When…

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@terjix Jul 18, 2025, 9:51 AM UTC

Held By A Song, Healed By Love

There are songs that sound beautiful and there are songs that sound like they were made for you to find them when you need them most. Chord Overstreet’s ’Hold On’ is one of these songs. This song is…

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@terjix Jun 27, 2025, 12:14 PM UTC

City of Mirrors

Sochima thought that she had finally received the ticket that would grant her entry into the life she always dreamt of. That was after she had received an e-mail about her transfer letter to the comp…

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@terjix Jun 20, 2025, 8:02 AM UTC

The Longing To Just Be

One notion I used to maintain was that no human can truly be free. We are always bound to one thing, idea, principle, or human. In a way, that's what makes us human. But sometimes, the things we are…

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@terjix Jun 15, 2025, 12:14 PM UTC

Anjonu

When Tese alighted from the train, he knew that what he was running from would not find him here. A strange calm wrapped itself around him like a warm blanket. Ibadan was nothing like Lagos. No buzz…

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