Publisher: Parrésia
Authors: Ifesinachi Okpagu
Publish Year: 2015
Pages: 188
ISBN10: 978-978-949-991-5
For the first time in my adult life, I was struck dumb. It was not
often that I did not have anything to say. It had never happened
at all, except that one Sunday afternoon many years ago, but that
hardly counted. Of my sister and I, people expected me to rush
headlong into a conversation before being asked to, often times
without a thought of the actions my errant tongue caused. I was
usually fingered as the one with a mouth that ran like a tap without
a control; the one my mother had to give those side-eyed glances
that could slice onions without a knife. But today of all days,
Obiora had succeeded in drying the spittle from my mouth, and
worse, he had not even been trying.