One of the ways of loving your wife is to "call her when you're going to be late".
Do you agree?
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We present a play titled WAITING, classified as STATE BLAST from the WARD9ice franchise. “Waiting” is published and updated weekly on this blog for your reading pleasure.
SET
Rosie’s Room
Father’s
Bedroom
Thomas’ Livingroom
CHARACTERS
Rosie, a college
student
Michael Majek
Mother
Father
Thomas, a football coach
Mary, Rosie's girlfriend
Ben, Rosie's younger brother
WAITING
SYNOPSIS
ROSIE is just been informed that MICHAEL her fiancé
is dead. She’s informed that he died in a bomb explosion in his living room. But
Rosie refuses to believe the story despite all available evidence. Instead, she chooses to wait for a different report even if it means doing so forever. What then
becomes of her under the circumstance as her father suddenly disowns and sends
her packing from his house rather than show love and sympathy?
PROLOGUE
The actions here are partly in mime. Lights meet ROSIE returning to her room from lectures, drops her books and handbag on the reading table, and puts on the radio set, while a rap musical begins to play she prepares herself a glass of water, takes a sip, dances to the music in a manner showing she is in tune with the times. Now the phone (landline) rings, she stops dancing, lowers the volume of the music, and picks up the call.
ROSIE
(on the phone)
Rosie, speaking. Who’s on the line? … Oh, Michael, Darling … I’m fine. And you? (the voice on the other end seems in a hurry) Darling, what’s the hurry? I mean, your voice is shaky, and … where? … but-but why – Hello! (no response) Hello, Michael! (no response) Hello! (no response).
Seems confused for a moment, she attempts to call a number from her mobile, hesitates, picks up her handbag, starts for the door, hesitates, attempts it again, enter MOTHER, weeping silently, tears welling up her eyes, stripping her cheeks.
MOTHER
(toneless)
Rosie!
ROSIE
(curious)
Yes, mother. What’s the problem? Why are you crying? (no response) Mother, please talk to me … what’s the problem?
MOTHER
Michael … Michael Majek is dead …
ROSIE
(confused)
Dead? No! No, mother. He couldn’t be dead. I mean, I have just spoken with him on the phone and he said he –
MOTHER
Rosie, he’s dead … Michael is dead …
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CATCH-UP at this time spotlights PalmPay, a leading Africa-focused fintech platform committed to driving economic empowerment across the continent. Given its secure, user-friendly and inclusive suite of financial services, PalmPay brings top-tier products into the pockets of everyday Nigerians by offering money transfers, bill payments, credit services and savings on its smartphone app with a network of 500,000 mobile money agents.
Since its official launch in Nigeria in 2019 under a Mobile Money Operator license, PalmPay’s platform has grown to 25 million users and over 300,000 merchants are part of its cashless payment ecosystem.
According to a recent report by Ynaija “PalmPay celebrates 25 million user milestone in Nigeria, network of 800,000 mobile money agents and merchants”.
NewsRoundUp at this time takes-off from the United States with the now trending story about the Supreme Court solidifying protections for workers who ask for religious accommodations.
NewsRoundUp at this time sets out with the shocking story from Egypt of a Mum allegedly hacking her 5-year-old son to death and then cooking and eating his head. According to the local Egyptian media report which also claims the suspect committed the crime with a machete and cooked and ate part of his head, her arrest has been effected after the boy's horrified uncle found body parts in buckets at the home in Abu Shalabi, Egypt. Officers were shocked when the suspect, Hanaa, confessed that she had eaten part of her son's head because she "wanted him to stay with her forever".
OTSEMOBOR is an undergraduate student. No, he is more than a student. I mean, he could approach anything in a skirt no matter the given circle. He’s gifted in the act of winning over the opposite sex and has done this severally in favor of his peers and himself. There was this exclusive party to be hosted by a popular Governor in West Africa. Of course, Ose was not invited. But he had all the details. Don’t ask me how because I don’t know ‘how’. Anyway, he found his way into the party and without long he had spotted his catch.
“ Hello!” he said confidently as party jams fill the atmosphere.
“ Hi!” the lady responds arrogantly.
“We seem to be the only ones not catching the fun at this party, don’t you
think so?” he fired.
“Please, excuse me. I’m not interested in the pleasure of any conversation.
Thank you!” she snapped.
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XCLUSIVE INTERACTIVE courtesy, Interview Magazine features Sasha Velour in an interview with Mikelle Street captioned: Sasha Velour Delivers a Long Drunken Drag Bar Speech
On season nine of RuPaul’s Drag Race (which she ultimately won), Sasha Velour developed a bit of a reputation. She was called the face of Brooklyn drag, with performances that were both artsy and extremely studied. And it’s true: Sasha Velour is a glossy, living piece of art, but she also thinks deeply about who she is, what that represents, and the impact she can have. This all crystallizes in her new book The Big Reveal, which is part-memoir, part-drag history, part-manifesto, addressing queer expression and gender variance at the macro level, literally beginning with the Mesolithic age, and also the micro, sharing intimate details of her post-Drag Race reign.
WARD9ice this moment brings you curtesy, reedsy.com, Strawberry Jam Under the Sea, a story entry submitted into Contest #192 by Aeris Walker about someone stuck in an endless cycle who finally manages to break free.
I am
swimming, thrusting my arms through golden water—golden-like oil. The water
grows thick and syrupy, then it pulls me under. I’m in a bottle, glass sloping
above me. Someone tilts and pours, and I slide onto a pan, palms burning from
the heat. I slip and roll in the slick spill. Steam rises off my wet hair. Then
I am smothered under the sticky weight of raw meat.
“Mommy, can I sleep with you?”
The voice startles me, a breathy whisper in the dark. Then it comes again.
“Please? I had a bad dream.” Jack’s lisped dweem melts my heart, and I can’t say no.
DID YOU KNOW that to prepare for her role in the television film Search for Grace, actress Lisa Hartman Black underwent hypnosis?
Search for Grace is a 1994 American fantasy thriller television film directed by Sam Pillsbury from a teleplay by Alex Ayres. It was produced by CBS Entertainment Productions and stars Lisa Hartman Black and Ken Wahl. The film tells the story of Ivy (played by Hartman Black), a landscaper who leaves her long-time boyfriend to be with the mysterious Johnny (Wahl). Ivy begins experiencing flashbacks to the life of a long-dead woman named Grace (also played by Hartman Black), whose life in 1927, including her doomed relationship with the gangster Jake (Wahl), mirrors her own.