Priscillar Matara

book lover, creative writer, journalist, entrepreneur and overall dreamer

[AfroYoungAdult @AfroYoungAdult]

Friends and family called me Skids instead of by my real name, Mishay. I got the nickname in Grade One after soiling my underwear in class.
1998 was marked by failure.
The Year of Failure - S Chibba
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[AfroYoungAdult @AfroYoungAdult]

S. Carrim (Tara's Hair) is the author of two novels, Humeirah (2012) and Semi-Apes (2015) both set in Carrim's home country of Mauritius. Carrim is currently a Genocide Studies and Neurolaw academic in Kuala Lumpur.
#WaterBirdsonTheLakeShore

[AfroYoungAdult @AfroYoungAdult]

What I remember next was that I was lying with my back on the floor. About a dozen girls had restrained my limbs and pinned my body firmly down. "Zehara...Zehara..." I huffed
Zehara's Return- JW Lukorito
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[AfroYoungAdult @AfroYoungAdult]

"Mavis! Your girls are beautiful." You wince at thw sound of your mother's name. It's like seeing an adult in the nude. In your world, mothers are called by their first child's name..."
Last Places -P. Matara
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[AfroYoungAdult @AfroYoungAdult]

Mr Larbi is still looking at me. So is the entire class. Eyes move from me to Mr Larbi and from Mr Larbi to me. Cowards. Aren't they supposed to jump in and help me or something? Anything?
The Sun is White- K. Berko
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[Something Big, Something Stupid @kon_adu]

My short story - The Sun Is White in #WaterBirdsonTheLakeshore @fdzogbewu @AwuahMainoo @serwandy_ @writersPG

[AfroYoungAdult @AfroYoungAdult]

My family is poor. Maybe i shouldn't say it with such lassitude, or maybe I have the right to. It is something I accept. My parents are poor. I don't see why I should feel bad about saying it.
Elxa- K. Adantchede
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[Priscillar Matara @PriscillarMatar]

Waiting for an email,even though the brief clearly said successful ones will be contacted by a date that's way past. M waiting. Ha! Ha!

[Priscillar Matara @PriscillarMatar]

@Tsitsigm You crazy Tsitsi.I should move neh...

[Priscillar Matara @PriscillarMatar]

Thank God for storytellers. I mean it.

[Priscillar Matara @PriscillarMatar]

@Tsitsigm I was travelling and for some reason did not have a notebook with me. How are u?

[Priscillar Matara @PriscillarMatar]

Woke up this morning with the opening paragraph of a short story I have been thinking off.Now, I cant find the till receipt I wrote it on.