"Thief thief thief" the angry mob kept on screaming as they chased after Nwafor.
“I'm not a thief!” Nwafor screamed back but he dare not stop running. He knew the moment the mob got to him, they would set him on fire even before he will be able to say a word. Jungle justice was well known in this part of the country, especially after the people found out that some corrupt officers always set the criminals free after they've been brought to the station by the people. So they all resorted to carrying out justice themselves rather than to give them to the police officers.
Nwafor kept on running as the mob kept on gaining on him. This morning when he was leaving the comfort of his room to go get bread down the street, he didn't know he would be signing up for some marathon race. Nwafor had seen the real thief. The man had ran past him with the speed of a cheetah. He noticed him and the man been chased had the same type of cloths on. It was the latest type of Ankara clothing that wizkid, a celebrity musician had worn in his latest music video so it was trending in the country. Almost every young wizkid fan had one of those, so Nwafor didn't find it strange that they both had the same type of cloths on. But about thirty seconds after the man ran past him, he saw the crowd charging towards him.
“Something wasn't right”. Nwafor thought to himself as he noticed they were all pointing towards him. Then it hit him. They had mistaken him for the thief simply because they both had the same type of clothing on. So Nwafor did what anyone who had lived in this part of this country for six months would do, he ran.
But Nwafor knew it won't be long before the angry mob caught up with him, so he ran towards the only place he knew the mob wouldn't follow, he ran towards the police station. And in as much as he knew he would be extorted by the police before he would regain his freedom, he preferred that than to be burnt to death for a crime he didn't commit. Heaven knows all he wanted was to get some bread.
Nice work! This speaks volumes about the judgment of our peers and how it can be far worse than other options.
Thank you.
greetings, @nazzyvic.
A story with a certain intention to describe everyday life.
You manage to describe well the thoughts of the protagonist
Greetings @gracielaacevedo and thank you taking your time to read my story. I really appreciate.
Greetings @nazzyvic
We congratulate you for your willingness to write. We hope you have the will to train yourself in this. Your writing seems to have a sense of social criticism in the contradictory thinking of your character and the "reasons" why he is persecuted. Best of luck in your writing process.
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Thank you @theinkwell I'm still very new to writing so I hope that with time I get to improve and do better. And comments like this do have a way of motivating me.. Thank you for reading my story and I will do well to read that of other author in the Inkwell community and leave a comment as well.
Hi @nazzyvic. Welcome to Hive and thank you for joining us in The Ink Well. As one of The Ink Well moderators, I help to encourage our community members, and also keep an eye out for copyright and plagiarism issues, which of course we do not allow in our community.
We noticed that this story bears a striking resemblance to another a story by one of our community members: https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@bruno-kema/into-the-jungle. Hopefully it is just a coincidence, but there are many details that are similar, so I wanted to make sure you know that we only accept 100% unique content. The person posting the content must be the original author, and must not have simply revised a story that has already been told. We use plagiarism checkers and report any violations to Hive Watchers.
Can you please verify that this is your own unique content? Thank you.
Hello @jayna the story is 100% mine and any resemblance to any other story is totally coincidental.. As you know, I'm new to hive and I haven't really read much of anyone post here..
Everything I wrote up there was born out of my own imagination.
Thank you very much for confirming, @nazzyvic. That's what I was hoping to hear. We wish you well and hope you continue to be inspired by our prompts! You did tell a very interesting story. I'm very glad to know that it is your own original work.
I just read the story on the link you dropped and although I could see the resemblance, I assure you that it's nothing but just coincidence.
I actually worked hard on this one myself and seeing that I'm not getting the praises I thought I deserved for it is heartbreaking.
Hello nazzyvic,
Don't be heartbroken. If you read the first three comments here, you will see that they praise your story. We have difficulty with people who don't write original stories and that is why we are cautious. Anyone can vote on your story, as I am going to do now. If we firmly believed the story was plagiarized, we would have muted it.
This story reminded me of something that happened to my sister. She was being followed by some bad actors when she was driving late at night. She did what your protagonist did. She drove straight to the police station and the bad actors drove away.
I hope you come back and write a story about this week's prompt, cats. You obviously enjoy writing and can create a believable story arc. I look forward to reading that story.
Thank you for your kind words @agmoore I sure needed them... I will check out the prompts and see if I can cook up something.
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