When the Rains Retu...
By Xegun25
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  • Short Story
  • africangothic
  • ancestralcurse
  • barrenearth
  • blooddebt
  • cursedland
  • darkfolklore
  • folkhorror
  • ghostlybargain
  • hauntingpromise
  • nigerianhorror

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Adisa always dismissed his father's warnings about the cursed land-until the night a spectral woman in tattered red emerged from the baobab grove, her bare feet bleeding into the dust. "Your blood knows my pain," she whispered, her grip icy. She speaks of a broken promise, a debt owed by his grandfather-one that has festered into a generational curse. Now, the barren fields, the failing crops-they all make sense. But her demand is worse: "You must love me." As the boundary between myth and reality crumbles, Adisa must choose: surrender to a ghost's twisted bargain or watch his bloodline-and his future-wither to dust. The land remembers. And so does she."

When the Rains Return

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