After It Happened

28th March, 2018

Danielle,

I got to leave school before lunchbreak! That's great news right? At least I finally get enough sleep if only I can block out Grammy's and Aunty Amara's shouts of "Fire! Fire! Die by Fire!". It's really hard to ignore their loud prayers especially when the words 'Olanna' and 'evil spirit' continuously leave their lips.

possession. That is what everyone is thinking judging the whispers and looks my classmates and teachers were giving me as I picked up my school bag. I can't really blame them though. This

thousand times. Have I told you before that Aunty Amara is a single mom? Well that should be obvious since she doesn't live with her husband. She divorced her husband when Dubem was

of conversations I've heard, I think he was violent towards Aunty Amara and her children. He was about to bring home a new wife and Aunty Amara

was in her final year as a Medical student got engaged to her boyfriend who is really rich. According to Aunty Amara, her daughter who was her light and joy got really

walked up to her bed shouting, "Stop killing