This Calf Of Mine

By Gerald Kithinji

Ganga Kwambili has issues with the rules of the game. He flouts a cardinal rule for which he is banished to some lonely jungle without his kind of food. For days, Ganga prays to the god of hyenas to provide something, anything to quieten his rumbling bowels and give him energy to hunt for something worthwhile. But the god of hyenas has seen fit to deny Ganga anything edible. Now at the end of his banishment, Ganga has found his own calf. Will the god of hyenas let him feast in peace?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gerald Kithinji
• Release date: Sep 29, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310249761

Gerald Kithinji

I trace my roots to Kenya but I am a Citizen of the World when it comes to what I write or what I read. Whether Poetry, Short stories, Novellas or Novels, I strive to tell it as it is or was for the World Reader. Karibu. Welcome. Bienvenue. Willkommen. Bem vindo. Bienvenido. Benvenuto.Enjoy whatever suits you on my humble page.

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This Calf Of Mine

Copyright 2014 Gerald Kithinji

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Chapter One: Faulty Memory

In the remote jungles of northern Mozambique, wild animals roam and live in utter freedom, breathing the fresh air of unpolluted and under-populated territories. The majority of them have never seen a human being. When the war of independence began, the hyenas of Maua came face to face with bodies of freedom fighters, abandoned by fleeing comrades. The first pack of hyenas to see these strange bodies could not think of what else to do with the fallen heroes, so they ate the lot.

Their leaders had cautioned that it was against their custom to eat anything that they did not know. To get around the problem, the hyenas re-named the delicacies sky-birds, because wherever they found the bodies, vultures would be hovering above.

It is said that the first hyena to meet a man, followed him a considerable distance, expecting