Nwabuking Mack
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The ANCIENT DEED OF 1890
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*THE ANCIENT DEED OF 1890: The Village Where Every Child Born On June 14th Disappeared**1890. Igbogun Village, 7 miles from Badagry.*Every child born on June 14th in my village was cursed.The elders said Ogun, god of iron, would take them before they clocked 18.No one questioned it. Until I got pregnant.My name is Morenike Johnson. 19 years old. My husband Daniel is a fisherman who cannot read.On January 20, 1890, a white missionary named Dorothy Whitaker came with a Bible and a deal: _"Give me your child born on June 14th, I will save it from Ogun. I will give you $50 and a ticket to Lagos."_We thumbprinted. We thought it was salvation.It was a deed.On June 14, 1890, at 11:47 PM, I gave birth to triplets in the mud - Morenike, Amara, and Daniel Jr. Same face. Same cry.Dorothy took them that night in a canoe.Her "boarding school" in Badagry was not a school. It was the first prison.100 children. All born June 14th. All taken with the same lie. All worth $5 a day to the British Colony.At 13, I gave birth again in Cell 17, prison bathroom, alone, to triplets fathered by her son.She sold them too.*140 years later, in 2030, my great-great-granddaughter Maya, 17-year-old warden of Barstow Prison in Texas, finds a deed taped under a drawer in 2030.*Owner: Mary Johnson. Her mother. Locked as inmate #44 for 11 years.And in the boiler room of Abilene: $89 million cash and a paper written in charcoal in 1920:_"June 14th is not cursed. It is a deed. Every child born June 14th is owned. Find the first deed in Badagry. Burn it. - Morenike, 1890"_Under it, in fresh pink ink, written one day before Dorothy died in 2030:_"Nice try, Morenike. I moved the bricks. I own June 14th. - D."_*One village. One date. One family. 1,682 souls. 6 prisons. 140 years of lies.**What was the real cover truth they buried in 1890?*
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The 17-years-old Warden
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*TITLE: THE 17-YEAR-OLD WARDEN**GENRE:* Dark Comedy / Thriller / Contemporary / Family Drama / Social Issue*TAGS:* #girlboss #prison #texas #teenwarden #darkcomedy #thriller #inmates #corruption #nofilter #strongfemalelead #fbi #privateprison #nonromance*BLURB (For Stary):*My name is Maya Johnson. I am 17 years old, 5'2", broke, and I failed math last semester.Yesterday, I became the WARDEN of a private prison in West Texas with 212 inmates.My grandmother I never met died and left me her "business" - West Texas Detention Center, Private Facility. The will says: Run it for 1 year, or the prison gets demolished and you get $0. The prison also has $2.1 million in debt.I thought she was a baker. She was a prison owner who got paid $80 per inmate per day by the government. The more inmates, the more money.On my first day, I found a locked room in her office. Inside were 40 files marked "RELEASED - DO NOT RELEASE."40 men who were supposed to go home 5 years ago. My grandmother kept them locked up to keep getting paid.If I free them, I lose $1.1 million and the prison goes bankrupt in 2 weeks.If I keep them, I become rich, but I become her.The FBI is coming in 7 days for an inspection.The guards don't listen to me because I'm 17.The inmates call me "Baby Warden."
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A Man who is Already Dead
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A young man receives a message from a phone number belonging to someone who died three years ago. At first, he thinks it is a prank, but the messages reveal secrets that only the dead man could know. As he investigates, he discovers that the dead man had predicted his own death—and left behind a mystery that could put his life in danger. Every message brings him closer to the truth, but someone alive is desperately trying to keep that truth buried.
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