Rising Star

I have grown up (and still grow) in a staunch christian home. My parents are the kind of parents who observe the rules of being a christian family. The journey that led us to the knowledge of God and Jesus Christ as the centre of our home started with my immediate younger brother who passed away in 1997. His was a life of pain and struggle but which led us to know God. For this reason, his legacy will still live on because it is his life that made my parents-and our family- to seek God. Until now, I keep on wondering how and what it would be like to have had Bethuel Kimtai with us. Would we have been best of friends? Would have been very close? Would he be calling me 'Big Sister'? Would he be telling me of the girls he had met? His girlfriends? His struggles? This is a life that I can only have in my thoughts. I am a complete opposite of my elder sister. Sylviah, (I love her so) is so talkative and outgoing. She is a hard rock on the outside but a sweet, soft and loving woman...

Anne toyed with the idea of skipping Belinda’s birthday altogether but on second thought she decided to go. She did not want to disappoint her closest friend and besides, she thought, she had already promised her that she would show up. She dragged her tired body out of bed and headed towards the bathroom. Lately, her life seemed to have taken a turn for the worse since she broke up with Joe six months ago. Just the passing thought of him made Anne’s heart wrench with pain. She had loved him so much and missed all they did together. For once in a very long time, as she sat in the bathtub, she allowed her mind to drift away to the very first time they had met. She had travelled to her rural home that weekend but on her way back she had been stranded at the Taxi Park because there were no more vehicles going towards her direction. Though it was a bit late, vehicles usually plied that route up to as late as midnight. So, when she alighted at the Park and realized that some of the...