• Israel Muvindi

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BOOM!! Debris were flying in all directions. Limbs were scattered all over.
Indeed, the sight was the modern day Akel Dama with intestines gushed out,
semi-digested human waste liberally but haphazardly broadcast around the
maligned house which, in a split second, resembled a desolate home, an eerie
ghost compound… only too fresh and mysterious to ignore.
The police were all over the place, ambulance sirens blaring, with all and sundry trying to make sense of the terror blast. Everyone was trying to convince
themselves that it was neither a very bad dream nor a hyperbolic Science Fiction
Western movie. Two mangy dogs about eight hundred metres away were
oblivious of our plight and they were interlocked in their lustful romance. The rest
of their fellow crowded mongrels were helping themselves to some human limbs
all over the place. A number of street urchins were having some fun too as they
were chasing this particularly thin “puppy” that was pulling a dead woman’s thigh
across the road. As they drew closer to the “puppy”, they were amazed to realise
that it was a grown starved male dog that had pursued the group of dogs to try its
luck on the bitch. It was only unfortunate that when tragedy struck, it was the one
closest to the site, yet lucky enough to survive the blast. All along, the dog had
maintained a safe distance from the other ferocious males that could sink their
dangerous fangs into its withered skin. Now it was taking advantage of its vicinity
to suddenly available “Christmas” meal of

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