WILLIE MARSHAL LITERARY MANIFESTATIONS

                                                    FLAME'S AND ASHES

 

  "Victoria's volition sounds deeply impressed at her sister's fashionistic character, even as Odesina gave her a sisterly kiss and got broke in tears, she wasn't shy telling her mum of her bizzare convoluted stories and how she flipped herself round the bed'.

Etche is back from retreat. It was her first time for her to partner with etisalat trainees convention. She wears blue velvet and her shoe weighs her six feet. She's holding her vacuum bonanza bag, with a pair of chewing stick on her left. She'd been smiling when Street passer's faced her and grin at her beauty. She's the mother of two children 'victoria's and odesina's.

  She comes home singing and crooning how etisalat had given her a welcome certificate, and still hoping to see her children again.
      At her entrance, she saw a man with a white gown sitting on an armchair and clicking finger on her children. She didn't know that, it was her husband. Her dad Mr ELF when she was young about eleven took her away from him. It was because, he pregnated her.
    The instincts of her's came to reality that every mother are never and can never be coward's, she must take and bare the consequences.
     He staggered to her like a drunken master, and like a pub crawl, and she said to him
             'young intelligent man, I can see that; you are wearing my daughter's glasses, and therefore seeming seriously. But, she confirmed him an owl'.

After she'd finish speaking, the man responded, and calleth her name first  'Etche'. She gasps back at him. So optional, who told you my name? The man started crying while speaking
             'Haven't you read about my history? I am the father to your children, and my name is Ibeh, I live with my mum here in ILaye.

She gasps after she'd heard the tone of his voice sounding familiar and think towards his conduct.
     She recognizes that he was the man who pregnated her when she was eleven, and that he was there to live and spend his time with her. Her old fashionistic, sybaritic lifestyle flushed away and she got her parental freedom. She embraces him and he lifted up his paw.

It's morning; Ibeh had gone to work, and Etche remains on bed sleeping because she's pooped down by yesterday labour, and her children are wake, and seeking for pizza. They were hungry and needed morning breakfast. Mr's Etche, still sleeping on bed had a dream of how she married a huge cockroach, and she reproduce and gave birth to a bunky pithon, and that she grew becoming a dictator, and the pithon ruin the land.
         Secondly, she'd a miscarriage of how she buried her children.
     Thirdly, she dream't of how she drank with her blanket and got snooze with cigarettes. This is twelve hour and yet she's unaware. Her children at the kitchen shouted and shouted and haven't heard her voice.
      Odesina and her sister plan of what to do, that will make her shed tears. So they did eat and went into the kitchen, pour out bucket of dark dust, and pour out one litter of kerosene. Odesina ran into the room and hide under her bed, and Victoria hit the drum thrice and light on the matches, and Mr's Etche heard the sound, and she woke up, and rushed into the kitchen and found two bodies burning as if it was Victoria and Odesina her daughter's, it was burning with great flame's. She sprinkle the kitchen with water mixed with foam and the fire stop. She stepped in, and saw only ashes in form of dust. She call's her children's name twice and heard not. She wept sore, calling on Omega. Omega was a native priest who delivers dead bone's, and woke spiritual being in them. It unfortunate, that, Omega had travelled twelve year's ago to a  strange land and haven't return.
    
   Victoria and Odesina heard her cry but chooses to be quiet. It was to teach her some parental lesson and her responsibility.
    Her husband come's home with his brown xalic car, with a bag of pizza, and had two packets of chin chin on his pocket, expecting to see his children, at least to welcome him. Rather, it was his wife 'Etche' crying, crying and crying. Her conscience disturbing her because she'd no excuse give, talk less of what to tell her husband. He walked up to her, cleaning her tears with his paw and having pity for her. He asked 'my wife' who did this to you? She yelled in pain's. 'I lost my two children' What? In annoyance, Ibeh went into his kitchen and saw what she had said. He flounced out, and took with himself a pair of knife rushing to kill her too. By now, Etche has left the house, and he knows where she is up to. He jumped into his car and went to fetch her. As he drove into Iseyin lanlate community, the spirit of killing her roses in sparrow. It has gone. He came down from his car and saw her sitting under Iseyin lanlate mango tree, he walked up to her and sit beside her. She feels the cool and love for him.  She can perceive his fragrance perfume spread all over his body, and she lay herself down on his lap, and her eye's closes to rest.

   After some time, he woke her up and took her hand into  his car and drove her home. Back in car, she's wake and she can breathe normally. Ibeh asked her, if she could provide him another child, and she vowed to him according to their tradition, two children is enough for her' this word make her to blabbed with Ibeh her husband to remarry again. Ibeh looks at her, and she presume it was okay, because her dream had change to a woman of death bone's.
  
      It surprises her, when Ibeh had open the door seen numbers of people both men and women jubilating and singing Acapella, and some playing drums, while some blowing flute and some other instruments. It was like her dream and her husband eye's too. Someone came to them and led them by the way to the podium. As they wanted to climb the podium, Ibeh and his wife saw Victoria  and Odesina alive and they shouted "CHINEKE"