Finding Her Apollo Writing Contest After her grandfather passed on, he made Tinan promise him that she would not forget the ways of the people of Chumaa. He made sure she understood that she and her elder brother could be the last of pure blood of their original kind. Years later, with the coming of the strange looking people from worlds away,her heart puts her in a dilemma. She has to choose between keeping her promise or going after forbidden love. Will she find a perfect way?

Your Shauri is a story of two great female friends;one straight (Apiyo) and the other (Gweth) is a lesbian.They grew up together and went to the same primary school.Later they had different lives and met after they were done with their university. Apiyo does not have any idea that the teenage favors from Gweth were because she had a crush on her. However, as Gweth opened up about her relationship problems with her girlfriend(Hawe),she might have hinted that she wished it was Apiyo she was dating. Apiyo has got a very strong personality and a bad habit of speaking out her thoughts not caring whether her words hurt or not;a character Gweth has put up with because of emotional blindness.This will bite her big time when she decides to tell Apiyo she wishes it was Apiyo and not Hawe she was marrying. The title 'Your Shauri translates to your fault or your loss. Gweth was right behind the door when Hawe was making her heartbreaking confession to Apiyo who loved her as a friend not as a woman. 'This is your shauri,been telling you I don't play with girls.So little sister, don't ask me to help in cleaning your mess' In this story,Gweth loses Hawe, her one shot at true love in an African society filled with harsh judgement agaisnt LGBTQ just because she could not let go of a teenage obsession;Her Shauri