Chiamaka Umeasiegbu
Chiamaka Umeasiegbu is a freelance journalist who studied English literature and has written and directed two stage plays. She has also written a number of short stories and poetry for magazines and journals.
Entries by this Author
My Maidenhead – A Short Story by Chiamaka Umeasiegbu
- By Chiamaka Umeasiegbu
- Published October 23, 2008
- Fiction
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I woke up at the first cockcrow and sat in the darkness listening to the beat of my heart and the talk of the spirits of our land. I did not want to believe in spirits but my father taught me to believe. And so I began to believe. When Opi the bird of death whistled its three-step epitaph, I turned my back away from it to let it pass...