Life is a Beach

Fiction

Adaeze Sherleen Ilo
The Lark
Published in
4 min readNov 2, 2021

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Disclaimer: The scenes from this short story are set in the West African country of Nigeria. Some of the language used reflects the popular Pidgin English spoken by locals. Pidgin English is a form of broken English.

It was 3:30 pm and Lukeman was drenched in his own sweat. The damn sun hadn't set yet? He hissed as he scanned the traffic for potential customers. Being a street hawker for over two…

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Adaeze Sherleen Ilo
The Lark

Just a happy go lucky girl who recently embraced her writing super powers. Now I write to make up for lost time.