A Tugging

A 100 words story about a couple and their immediate surrounding

A Tugging

Mr and Mrs Ajayi’s compound was birthed by the birth of Gabrielle, their first child in a town of names: Oko- Anala sometimes in October, 2018. A prophet gave a word of prophecy about it ten years back. “Buy a woman, buy a baby making machine” he had declared. It was just an investment call. The words only resonated back after the birth of Gabrielle tugged him as the mind of that prophet melded with his’. Then, it all made sense to him; the distances covered from wedding to the time the tugging matured in his compound.