Urushi and Other Stories from Ososo

INTRODUCTION ‘Urushi’ literarily translates to ‘fear’ in my native Ososo dialect ... And so this collection of short stories explores the subject of fear and human frailty. With titles like ‘Ebheshina’ -which is the word for ‘dream’, ‘Shadow of Light’, ‘Enami Imu’ -a phrase that translates to ‘Christmas Goat’, ‘That Sunday Afternoon’ and ‘The Footpath’, a whole lot of topics ranging from aging and death to fear, dreams, child abuse, r**e and teenage pregnancy respectively, are discussed in these collection... ‘That Sunday Afternoon’ won the maiden WordMaster challenge competition in 2015. All the other stories in this collection have been published in one form or the other, at different times, in different platforms, both home and abroad... In the end, we are all storytellers in our own way, except that the key to tapping into our creativity in the art of storytelling and our approaches differ in terms of level and style. In fact, it is this belief that informed my decision to tell the stories in this collection in a way that leaves you the reader with just one question: ‘How would the story end?’ In my own way, I want you my reader to complete these stories in your mind by tapping into your own creativity...to make a storyteller of some sort from you... I hope you enjoy reading the content of this work as much as I enjoyed writing them...