A World of Fakes!

By Dode Sescri

The world is full of fakes, fake music, fake maps, fake clocks, fake passion, fake everything. You have to figure out for yourself which is legit and which is not. However there are those things that start out as poor samples of an existing one, then later go on to improve, to surpass the brilliance of the already existing ones. To great advantage of the public, the good news is that all humans have an inborn ability to detect falsehood, to distinguish truth from lies, and quality form error, when you see someone or something that’s fake, you will just know it from the start, even a small baby knows who is of their family and who is not, when you put them into the hands of somebody else then they wail out loudly because they know they are in the wrong hands, pick your grocery basket and let us begin to separate apples from oranges.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dode Sescri
• Release date: Sep 11, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370655687

Dode Sescri

Let me tell you a story, it goes like this..."Once upon a time there lived a rat and a cat, they were very good friends, they lived happily in their wooden shack, they shared everything between themselves, when one of them got some food, he would share it with the other. One day the rat did something very bad, he annoyed the cat who then out of rage slapped him very hard, the rat was seriously injured by the blow and then died. That’s the end of my story..."Yarn spinning is a skill that is deeply ingrained in our blood, we are descended from a long line of great story tellers, there is no story we don’t know how to tell, we always find time to amaze our audiences with great tales, both the contemporary and the legends of the old...My old time friends Jiji and Kaki are the two fellows that have greatly influenced my writing and life at large, when you hear them speak you are led to think they know everything, Jiji was very good at debates, I don’t remember a single day when he lost a contest. Kaki on the other hand was a great story teller, I don’t know where he got his stories from, we simply enjoyed them, we never cared about his sources either, he had lots of them too. One thing I loved about this little fellow was that I never got bored around him. He would flood your ears with thousands of stories at a time and there is no single moment when he will tell you the same story twice. Jiji was somehow a fanatic. When there is a discussion then individuals get stuck at a point where nobody has any further information, all are ignorant, that’s when he jumps onto the dance floor, claiming he knows it all, I have never met anyone who loved arguments more than Jiji, even a simple discussion he would turn it into an argument. He had a strange way of convincing people to believe his claims, even though you had with you solid facts that proved him otherwise, you still couldn’t beat him...

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Contention. 

The word fake is used here poetically, it does not mean the counterfeiting business that has littered the world markets as we see it today, and it’s rather a bigger representation of falsehood in human nature as a whole.

Bogus-1-Santa turns thief.

There are people who would give you a present then expect something in return. Sometimes of much more value than what they have handed over. When an old folk present you a gift then starts acting as if he has given you so much or as if he has saved you a great deal, then for once you should know that this is not a real Santa but a thief, a burglar masquerading as a giver of presents. He puts on a red cloak and covers his face with a long grey beard. Then people would welcome him into their homes allow him to have access into all the bedrooms, to the place where the children sleep, he marks with a red ribbon. His real intentions are not to bring presents but to smuggle the house of its valuable goods.

When the family wakes up in the morning, they find their house is empty, swept clean by a mysterious robber. Even the only sofa they had is gone, no bed no telephone to call the authorities, house completely cleaned up as if it was recently built. How come the door remains closed, padlocks on cupboards are still untouched, and the keys are right here under my pillow? I guess we have lost everything says the owner. Please explain something to me, is Santa capable of doing such a horrifying thing? No, I don’t believe it, not a thing, this how they and many other families have been fooled, they noticed what was happening when it was too late, too late to fall back.

Bogus-2-fake identity.

In the cities, people can live a more careless life because they only remain anonymous, and after their actions are revealed no one bothers much to talk to them since they are just another face in the crowd, in the outskirts of towns and villages that would be nearly an impossible dream to achieve.

Job and I once lived in a small town where everyone knows everybody, when he left it became apparent to all the others that