KISS OF HOPE 1

 I groaned in pain, I writhed in agony, watching the snake that bit me crawled behind the thick grass. My breathe was already changing. Changing? Maybe, but I was dying and my breathe severing. Everything before me was getting blurred and life was ebbing out of me slowly.

I heard someone whistling from the left corner of the farm. I tried to shout the more for help perhaps I could be heard and helped. The blur figure, seeing someone in pain from afar, dropped his basket and ran toward me to save. It was when Chimanda got so close and saw my face and the poisonous wound I had on leg that he withdrew. He had a smirk on his jealous face.

"No. No. Chimanda. Chimanda!" I cried. "Please, Chima. Chima, please save me." I watched Chimanda, the only person I assumed to be in the farm at that very moment, walked away from me. He got back to where his basket of cassava was and helped himself with it, and still grew the effrontery to pass by my side. "Call the bae you snatched from me to save you." He said, hissing and spat on me.

Story by: ADENIJI MICHEAL MICHEALHADEN