Another Sad Story

By Apalara Samuel

Another sad story is just a series of another sad after another sad story. In the real world as we all know, there are no happy endings, moments are not always get what you want.
So I made this book to tell those stories, the ones we avoid, the ones we don't want hear, as a reminder that all endings will not be happy ever after.
Another sad story is a combination of poems from the heart and flash fictions fro the earth, which both reveals the travails of the world that we live in.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Apalara Samuel
• Release date: Mar 19, 2018
• ISBN: 9781370527021

Apalara Samuel

I get confused most times I'm asked to write about myself. So I want to write this about myself, where do I start from? is it from my name, that you already know? or my height or weight which I'm not sure I know. Or what I love doing, or perhaps detest a lot..? so if that is the case, I'll tell you a tad bit. Just so you know I'm a writer or perhaps I'd say I write. I'm a student, a geologist in the making to be specific. I'd love to be a prolific writer, vast in the knowledge of the art. And I'll do my best to withstand the test at all times, forgive me, if I sound like am reciting a pledge so let me dwell here till I have something reasonable to say next. So I get to write about the things I perceive, about society, love and anything I can imagine in my mind. Sometimes I write about new stuff and create another world in which I'm the puppeteer. That is the feeling.

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Credits

First Published in Nigeria 2018

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EDITED BY

ADEBAYO ADEBUKOLA

Directed by APALARA SAMUEL

Peckershill Books Nigeria 2018

design/layout – Apalara Samuel

Published in March , 2018 by PECKERSHILL BOOKS

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Content

I. Credits

II. Content

III. Dedication

Episode 1. Life sentence

Episode 2. A thousand splendid suns

Episode 3. I see fire 1

Episode 4. Afire song

Episode 5. I see fire 2

Episode 6. Never Yours

Episode 7. Hallucination

Episode 8. I can't write

Episode 9. 1-800-273-8255

DEDICATION.

Dedicated to all dreamers out there.

Life sentence

The sound was like none I've heard before. This time it was as if my ears stopped hearing and I could not hear anything else around me but the reverberating echo of mother's cry.

The noise had hoisted me from my deep sleep. The best I've had in weeks. I'd rushed out of my bed and hurriedly strapped my feet in the slippers that was on the floor. I checked the time and it was just few minutes past five in the morning. It's too early for this. I wondered.

I ran towards the direction where the noise had come from and in a swoop I was already in the living room.

He was standing over her, with his hands covered with