All Chapters of Sisyphyra: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

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The Cursed Grave - #2

You say life is short because you are richBut if I say life is long You will say it's because I am poor.Gbam! Gbam!Gbam! He grabbed his vibrating phone with an incoming call flashing on the screen. Mom! Then the call dropped. As he wanted to call back, the knock on his door resumed.Gbam! Gbam!Who the hell is it at this time of the day. He thought in his sleep as he swung off the bed moving blindly towards the door. The knocks continued. Opening the door, the light rays from the sun almost blinded his sleepy eyes. His girlfriend Loya, pushed past him into his one-room apartment as he shie

Last Updated : 2021-12-03

The Cursed Grave - #3

If you want riches without painThen get ready for a life without peace. Having taken a leave from his place of work, he had gone in search of Doctor Mayo's dwelling. That morning, he had crossed two streams, four villages, three forests, and three rivers away from where he had traveled from.Mark Crown's eyes widened at the excuse of a house the doctor lived. "Someone's got some level of intellectual degree and esteemable affluence yet this was what he could show off? A gross-looking mud hut with cracks on its wall. Engaging reptiles and arachnids. Talk about a monkinised person or a miser, but he was Zuko's business partner, it doesn't make any sense", he murm

Last Updated : 2021-12-06

The Cursed Grave - #4

The love from family Is bound by blood and tiesAnd the care rendered is endless.And so he started putting his plans in place one after the other. He bought a new house and a new car. All these, he never disclosed to Loya. Though the presence of riches in his life had prompted him to take a bold step in wedding her. Which he did just two months after just as her baby bump began to show. Mark continued to live with his wife in the one-room apartment until his mother visited them once again. His mother called him a failure at fathering a child when she realized in her assumption that he wasn't making any attempts to make his family conditions better. Since he already knew the kind of mother she was, he chose not to reveal his plans because if he did she will want him to consider her o

Last Updated : 2021-12-07

The Cursed Grave - #5

Life respects no oneA lot of shits happensWhen you expect.Despite what Mark was facing, the world was coming to a standstill. Over 200,000 people dropped dead suddenly across the continent In two days and the number is still counting. News had traveled like wildfire fear has increased. The few infected persons hospitalized complained of difficulty in breathing until death eventually took them away. Their diseased state was immune to antibiotics and doctors' prescriptions. Soon enough fear, anxiety grew.Loya felt all alone in Canada, she lived in fear as her neighbors kicked the basket. She felt the spirit of death was knocking on her door next. She had tried to put a calm through to Mark but it was never reachable, even his assistant was no

Last Updated : 2021-12-08

The Cursed Grave - #6

When there is life there is hopeWhen there is light there is dayWhen there is darkness there is also night. Pacing to and fro, every element of calmness had left him. He glanced at his Assistant and White Fox, they were nodding their heads in the corner. The nose mask on their face hid the drool from their slumber. He checked his old leather wristwatch again."What's taking them so long?" Mark had rushed his mother to the hospital.The news of his wife's death has not yet dawned on him. He wondered when the lockdown will be eased, he glanced at the empty reception room again.At 6:00 pm, the doctor finally addressed them. White Fox and Ma

Last Updated : 2021-12-09

The Cannibals of Caliba - #1

Far below the plains and valley of the Old Earth, by the moving fogs and dense brown grove full of red mangroves though it appeared above the Ngwal Ocean water level is Caliba, a slightly small land surrounded by huge rocks held on by tiny yet fragile-looking ones. It is what some people call today the Stone Age. The people of Caliba are gifted with the traits of fertility hatched on their DNA coupled with that they rarely feel the murderous pain childbearing entail. The source of this gift is yet to be revealed even to this day. As time passed by to the time of the great plague, many people died of the plague. All over their environs, there were houses and farms with no one to till the ground and live in them yet the Calibians flourished in population despite the death occurrence. Soon the news of their increase went across turns and villages like wide fire, it struck envy and unexplainable hate. T

Last Updated : 2021-12-13

The Cannibals of Caliba - #2

A Century Later...A group of Archaeology students traveled North towards the plains surrounding the Ngwal Ocean in search of fossils and ancient artifacts. They made a camp to rest before they continued their expedition. The head of the group, Bona made for the heavily branched tall Baobab tree. He climbed and laid on one of the strong branches closing his eyes. His long lashes rested on his skin above his cheeks. Mari watched him her face expressionless but her eyes spoke otherwise. The sound of Sule clearing his throat to let out viscous yellowish sputum jerked her back to reality. She sighed and turned back to putting up her tent scrunching her face in disgust. She sometimes wished they were not in the same department then she wouldn't have to go through this torture of seeing him almost every day. Who would have thought that Bona had applied to the s

Last Updated : 2021-12-16

The Cannibals of Caliba - #3

She doesn't know who was coming but she perceived what was coming. A big animal, she thought. She could not fully comprehend why her legs weren't moving. Get out of here! Her insides screamed but instead, she shouted "Sule?" Her voice echoed in the disturbing silence. She forcefully wiped her head around still there was no sign of Sule. Expecting to see a big animal ready to pounce on her but what she saw were scared barefoot of bushmen in an attire that seemed made from Camel skin. Then she saw other throngs of naked men whose private parts were the only ones covered. She knew she was in the middle of a stone age era. They were brandished with wooden bows and blabbed arrows moving towards her at increasing alacrity seizing her with their intense stares. She knew if she was to run now they would catch her in an instant. As soon as they held her hostage they gave a loud uproar that sent a loud bang i

Last Updated : 2021-12-20

The Cannibals of Caliba - #4

The dawn passed and the day came in a blur. The women had taken her away from the darkroom into one of the huts at first light. They had adorned her with strange accessories she had never come across. The room was nothing like she had seen either. "This was a living stone age," she thoughtThe bed was carved from the rocks, the tables and the stools were beautifully sculptured from the enormous rock that served as a shelter. If Sule had seen this, his eyes will certainly light up.She could smell the ruins in the air like a smoky fog had covered the village. One would have thought that it was the misty cloud as it often does during the harmattan. Her boots were removed and her legs were washed and painted with a white paste. They had drawn a mountain pattern on her legs. They moved on to her face, she fe

Last Updated : 2021-12-21

The Cannibals of Caliba - #5

Days passed in a blur and the night descended quickly. Bona stared out from the window of Mari's hospital room, lost in thoughts trailed back from the past. He remembered how he had swore to protect her and be with her. Now, he could not put a name to their relationship."I wish, how I wish," he thought aloud though barely above a whisper.He was indeed surprised at how composed he had been when he laid eyes on her dressed in a white camel skin from their hiding place. She had stood out from the crowd despite her drugged-induced state."She always has" he murmured.Turning away from the window, he glanced at her. Her natural afro laid rigid against the pillow, her lashes of warm chocolate rested on her cheeks. Moving towards her, he noticed her parched lips part as she b

Last Updated : 2021-12-22

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