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2017 AMAB/HBF Flash Fiction Competition | Short Listed Story | A Call from Heaven by Adebayo Adekunle

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With a cup of cold tea in her trembling hands, Zaenab parked herself on the edge of the only upholstered piece of furniture in Bulabulim Ngarnam Police Station. Her whole body vibrated, though unusually hot-tempered was the Sun that day. “Hi there, how are you doing?” a voice said. She ignored it. “Whenever you are ready ... please, we would like to know all that happened,” the same voice continued. It was Officer Danladi, the one she ran to for safety just an hour earlier. She must have been focusing so hard on trying to regain control of her body that she was unaware he had taken a seat beside her. ‘All that happened,’ she thought to herself and sighed. Then, as though time had moonwalked a bit in reverse, she became overwhelmed with fear. And thoughts. And sounds. She smelt the odour of gasoline evenly distributed in the car. And she could feel her belly aching from the device tightly fixed upon it.   It was the beginning of the