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mmykel (62)in The Ink Well • 3 months ago
My strongest pledge
Source September, 2012. My state of origin, which is also my state of residence, is about to mark its silver jubilee. I'm a university student and a greenhorn in the club of…
$4.22
Past Payouts $4.22
- Author $2.13
- Curators & beneficiaries $2.09
> hiveonboard: $0.02
> tipu: $0.02
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mmykel (62)in #inkwell • 3 months ago
Am I a yahoo boy?
Friday. I get back home from work. My face wears the demeanour of a typical 9-to-5 worker in the horrid, dry January weather of sub-Saharan Africa—weak, tired, and famished. I…
$0.21
Past Payouts $0.21
- Author $0.10
- Curators & beneficiaries $0.10
> hiveonboard: $0.00
> tipu: $0.00
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mmykel (62)in The City of Neoxian • 5 months ago
Concerning my birthday celebration
Last Friday was my birthday. Growing up, celebrating birthdays wasn't much of a big deal to me. To be honest, I used to be careless about it. I can vividly remember my elder…
$1.27
Past Payouts $1.27
- Author $0.63
- Curators & beneficiaries $0.64
> hiveonboard: $0.01
> tipu: $0.01
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mmykel (62)in #hivenaija • 5 months ago
Slain by subsidy removal
I wasn't planning to move into a new apartment this year. But with the removal of fuel subsidies in Nigeria and its subsequent consequential deficits, moving out became a crying…
$0.17
Past Payouts $0.17
- Author $0.09
- Curators & beneficiaries $0.08
> hiveonboard: $0.00
> tipu: $0.00
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mmykel (62)in #waivio • 5 months ago
Why the regrets?
source I don't think that an adult should have regrets about his past actions. It's only normal to constantly recognise things in our past we feel we should've done either…
$0.15
Past Payouts $0.15
- Author $0.08
- Curators & beneficiaries $0.08
> waivio: $0.00
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mmykel (62)in #waivio • 5 months ago
How I discovered waivio community.
Source While curating @kenechukwu97's post about a week ago via @dreemport, I was directed to this frontend, @waivio, for the first time. The fact that this frontend was…
$2.85
Past Payouts $2.85
- Author $1.41
- Curators & beneficiaries $1.45
> waivio: $0.04
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mmykel (62)in The Ink Well • 6 months ago
The love that never happened
Photo by freestocks.org Growing up, I was as gentle as a dove, tender, and somewhat fragile like a doll. Older ladies wanted to have me as their pet. After a handful of…
$0.99
Past Payouts $0.99
- Author $0.51
- Curators & beneficiaries $0.48
> hiveonboard: $0.00
> tipu: $0.00
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mmykel (62)in The Ink Well • 7 months ago
The void.
Photo by Marek Piwnicki The current of water from the rainfall drums against the zinc roof of my grandmother's bungalow house before rolling down to the floor. As the water…
$1.75
Past Payouts $1.75
- Author $0.89
- Curators & beneficiaries $0.85
> hiveonboard: $0.01
> tipu: $0.01
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mmykel (62)in Hive Naija • 8 months ago
You're responsible for your actions
Photo by Faruk Tokluoğlu More often than not, you hear people accusing religions, religion teachers, or thought leaders in general of leading people astray. In some corners…
$0.63
Past Payouts $0.63
- Author $0.32
- Curators & beneficiaries $0.32
> hiveonboard: $0.00
> tipu: $0.00
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mmykel (62)in The Ink Well • 8 months ago
The short comment
Source I had just returned from my long break from the Hive platform. The phobia and thrill I had in my early days returned. Each time I tap the sign-in button, I experience…
$7.60
Past Payouts $7.60
- Author $3.81
- Curators & beneficiaries $3.79
> hiveonboard: $0.04
> tipu: $0.04
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mmykel (62)in Scholar and Scribe • 8 months ago
Element convergence
Image source Catina trudged repeatedly from one end of the healer's room to the other, occasionally stamping her feet. Her hands were intermittently curling to form different…
$1.17
Past Payouts $1.17
- Author $0.58
- Curators & beneficiaries $0.59
> hive-199275: $0.01
> hiveonboard: $0.01
> tipu: $0.01
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mmykel (62)in Hive Naija • 8 months ago
Patience is still a requirement
Photo by Lara Jameson I know people who were christened Patience, but when they came of age, they decided to change their names to some other names. According to them, the…
$2.26
Past Payouts $2.26
- Author $1.14
- Curators & beneficiaries $1.12
> hiveonboard: $0.01
> tipu: $0.01
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mmykel (62)in The Ink Well • 8 months ago
Childhood. Growth. And Career
Photo by Helena Lopes of pexels Breeze poured from a rotating standing fan beside me and slipped itself beneath my cloth. It is caressing my bare skin—mainly the regions…
$3.47
Past Payouts $3.47
- Author $1.75
- Curators & beneficiaries $1.72
> hiveonboard: $0.02
> tipu: $0.02
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mmykel (62)in The Ink Well • 8 months ago
An emergency feast
Source My internal organs are aflame. Oh! Not every part, even though it feels so. It very well seems like embers are shoved down my throat or pushed through the other…
$5.92
Past Payouts $5.92
- Author $2.96
- Curators & beneficiaries $2.95
> hiveonboard: $0.03
> tipu: $0.03
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mmykel (62)in The Ink Well • 9 months ago
A treasured object in my brain.
Source In my circle, it was fast becoming a culture for most teens to attend a computer school immediately after they were done with their secondary school education. That was…
$2.99
Past Payouts $2.99
- Author $1.52
- Curators & beneficiaries $1.47
> hiveonboard: $0.01
> tipu: $0.01
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mmykel (62)in Hive Naija • 10 months ago
WHEN IT IS OKAY TO OVERREACH
Source If you could recall, on May 11, 2023, Hilda Bassey, a native of Akwa-Ibom State in Nigeria, embarked on a cooking marathon, which she tagged 'cookathon.' It was an…
$2.27
Past Payouts $2.27
- Author $1.15
- Curators & beneficiaries $1.12
> hiveonboard: $0.01
> tipu: $0.01
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mmykel (62)in The Ink Well • 11 months ago
I AGREED TO CONCEAL THE FUN
Source He drew his last breath years before I had my first, but I will grow up to be numbered among the plethora of "breaths" he enabled. My paternal grandfather…
$4.99
Past Payouts $4.99
- Author $2.52
- Curators & beneficiaries $2.47
> hiveonboard: $0.02
> tipu: $0.02
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mmykel (62)in The City of Neoxian • last year
Business/Life lessons from a clipper's servicing shop
Source On Saturday, while trying to groom my beards for Sunday service, I noticed that my clipper's blade had gotten blunt. It needed sharpening. There is nothing else to do…
$0.46
Past Payouts $0.46
- Author $0.23
- Curators & beneficiaries $0.23
> hiveonboard: $0.00
> tipu: $0.00
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mmykel (62)in The City of Neoxian • last year
DARK CONFESSION! HOW I WAS ALMOST TRICK INTO JOINING THE CHURCH OF SATAN
Source Someday last week, I received a call from Daniel, a former colleague that I haven't seen for three years, though we've had a few virtual interactions in between.…
$0.51
Past Payouts $0.51
- Author $0.26
- Curators & beneficiaries $0.25
> hiveonboard: $0.00
> tipu: $0.00
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mmykel (62)in The City of Neoxian • last year
YOU MUST NOT ALWAYS BE THE HERO.
Source One night, out of care, I slid into a female friend's WhatsApp inbox after reading a disturbing statement on her status. She posted that she was depressed. There was…
$2.35
Past Payouts $2.35
- Author $1.17
- Curators & beneficiaries $1.18
> hiveonboard: $0.01
> tipu: $0.01
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