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    Eyes Wide Shut
    Eyes Wide Shut
    Eyes Wide Shut
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    Eyes Wide Shut

    By Brenda Eziafakaego Nwafor

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    Eyes Wide Shut is a collection of twenty-four horror poems that explores crime, fear, mental health and different individual gory fetishes. It is an attempt to cross to the opposite side of love and reveal some of man's primitive vices and/or tendencies.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrenda Eziafakaego Nwafor
    Release dateNov 13, 2020
    ISBN9781005005481
    Eyes Wide Shut
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    Brenda Eziafakaego Nwafor

    Brenda Eziafakaego NWAFOR loves and writes poetry. She is a member and the secretary of the Association of Nigerian Authors, Lagos Chapter.She loves to make bags and accessories with African fabrics. She hopes you love poetry more than you have ever loved it.

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      Eyes Wide Shut - Brenda Eziafakaego Nwafor

      Eyes Wide Shut

      A Horror Chapbook

      Published by Laybels Publishing

      Copyright 2020 Brenda Eziafakaego Nwafor

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your preferred ebook distribution platform and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      DEDICATION

      To fear and all its different cloaks.

      To the things that spur us to greatness.

      To those that prod us to successful edges.

      To days of therapy.

      To

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