Tag "Pain"

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I Dove Deep Into The Darkness To Find The Release I Needed

I feel like everyone has that one ex, a former love that holds some kind of overwhelming power over you. It makes almost everything they do around you at once

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WOUNDS TOO DEEP

I have told the story about how I sought for love from other women, to feel things that were different from the turbulent feelings I had for my former longtime

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THE TRUTHS THAT DON’T SET YOU FREE

February 4, 2014 At the back seat of the Danfo where I am ensconced between my best friends, Moyo and Ekah, I sit still. I’d wanted the window seat so

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A MOMENT IN TIME

“So when did you know that you are queer?” Chike asked. I was taken aback. I hadn’t expected that. Chike was someone I met on Grindr late last year. We

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THROUGH THE DARKNESS

The latter half of 2020 was as exciting for me as an argument with seven dimwits would be for an intellectual. Time became so meaningless that I needed significant events

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SAVE ME FROM HELL

I am a 25-year-old gay Nigerian living with sickle cell disease, and it has been a journey. I grew up feeling ashamed of myself, feeling like something was wrong with

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JUST LIKE OLIVER TWIST (Closure)

EDITOR’S WORD: This is the third installment in the story titled JUST LIKE OLIVER TWIST. Just to recap, the writer, Tony, was in a relationship with Prince – Prince, the

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DEAR DIARY

Monday, 30th of March, 2020 Dear Diary, It’s been four years since I came home. The air is still as tense as the day I left. Dad almost sent me

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FROM RAINBOW TO NOTHING

It had rained earlier and the concrete is cold and slippery as I climb over the bridge and stood on the tiny ledge. A vicious wind blows at me, as

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THE AFTERMATH

You’ve read the stories. We Are Here: The Attack. We Are Here: The Hunt. We Are Here: The Retribution. And I was a survivor of the experience. In the stories,