Day 24 of 45 Days45 Days 24 DAYS © Aaron Ansah-Agyeman Effe parks her car and gets out. It is 3.00 in the morning. She had tried the previous day to come and look for Chris, but just as she finished dressing up a call had come through from Doctor Ameyaw; there had been a serious motor accident, and she...
Day 23 of 45 Days 45 Days 23 DAYS © Aaron Ansah-Agyeman Effe turns on her side restlessly and her eyes fall on the bedside clock. It is 5.00 a.m. It occurs to her that she needs to leave her parents’ house very soon. They had been a great help during her ordeal, but she feels it is now time...
Day 22 of 45 Days 45 Days 22 DAYS Effe is driving her mother’s car. Sitting beside her is Eyram, who has a paediatrician appointment with Dr. Rupert Henderson. Eyram casts speculative glances at her sister. Like it has been the case for so many years and is peculiar to twins, she can feel her sister’s inner pain and...
Day 21 of 45 Days 45 Days 21 DAYS © Aaron Ansah-Agyeman Chris wakes up and lies on his back. He is quite spent, and he is luxuriously tired. His heart is joyfully happy. He remembers them having the sweetest breakfast he has ever tasted, courtesy of Mr. Katoto. He remembers them starting kissing in the living area, getting naked...
Day 20 of 45 Days 45 Days 20 DAYS © Aaron Ansah-Agyeman Effe’s gloom persists as they drive along. She sits huddled in her seat, slipping in and out of dozes as Chris drives. She is a good surgeon, and always delivers more than her best efforts when she dons surgical gear and picks up surgical instruments. She is a...
Day 19 of 45 Days 45 Days 19 DAYS © Aaron Ansah-Agyeman Chris drives Effe to the Ameyaw-Eden Clinic. She asks him to pick her up in five hours, and then he leaves. She operates on three patients. The first two were comparatively easy, involving tumour removal and moulding two titanium legs for a millionaire who had lost both legs...
Day 18 of 45 Days 45 Days 18 DAYS © Aaron Ansah-Agyeman Dr. Rupert Henderson finishes knotting his tie in front of the dressing mirror. He takes his coat from the wardrobe door and puts it on. He turns and sees Barbara still sleeping. She is lying on her back, and he thinks of how beautiful she is. Her short...
Day 17 of 45 Days 45 Days 17 DAYS © Aaron Ansah-Agyeman Steve Hollison stops his car in front of the Love Bed Hotel. The hotel is located in an obscure part of Weija, and because of its remote access, many people, especially adulterous men and women, patronized it a lot. Steve blows the car’s horn once. A moment later,...
Day 16 of 45 Days 45 Days 16 DAYS © Aaron Ansah-Agyeman Jonathan Afful lies on his expensive matrimonial bed and stares at the expensive ceiling. A beautiful woman is lying naked beside him. Her name is Amanda, a twenty-year-old companion from the Lustful Lips Private Club. It is not the first time Afful has been with her on the...
Day 15 of 45 Days 15 DAYS © Aaron Ansah-Agyeman Effe wakes up with a little moan and sits up in bed. She had had a nightmare! She had seen Chris lying in a pool of blood! She looks at the bedside lamp. It reads 5.00 a.m. She picks up her phone. There is no missed call, and her...
Day 14 of 45 Days 45 Days 14 DAYS © Aaron Ansah-Agyeman They are having a family dinner. Madam Ivy has whipped up a most sumptuous palaver sauce with goat meat and boiled yam. Ken Kedem says the prayer, and when they begin to eat it is just like old times. Eyram, relieved and obviously happy, is perhaps enjoying dinner...
Day 13 of 45 Days 45 Days 13 DAYS © Aaron Ansah-Agyeman Effe sits on her bed. She is fully dressed in a most fetching cream skirt suit with short sleeves. Her make-up is minimal, and her jewellery consists of a matching chain, earrings and a bracelet. She looks very lovely indeed. There is a knock on the door, and...
Day 12 of 45 Days45 Days 12 DAYS © Aaron Ansah-Agyeman Effe lies in bed and yawns. It is morning, and she is surprised she had slept until morning. She has not cried during the night as usual. She hears her parents raised voices downstairs and wonders lazily what is going on. She gets out of bed and stretches....
Day 11 of 45 Days 45 Days 11 DAYS © Aaron Ansah-Agyeman The courtroom is quiet now. It had been quite emotional at first when Effe arrived with Joshua Darkwa. Steve, looking quite miserable, had met her in the corridor. He wanted to speak to her, but Effe had been too distraught to speak to him. She had been convinced...
Day 10 of 45 Days 45 Days 10 DAYS © Aaron Ansah-Agyeman He drives her to the Ameyaw-Eden Clinic first and waits whilst the cast is removed from her elbow. Later, he takes her to her parents’ house. She hands him a white envelope containing his rental charges, and then she smiles at him. He looks at her for a...
Day 9 of 45 Days 45 Days 9 DAYS © Aaron Ansah-Agyeman Effe is amazed. The Jamaica Resort is bigger than she originally envisaged. There are supermarkets, restaurants, a spa, beautiful gardens, bars, a sports complex and recreation spots. There is even a little zoo where she spends some time admiring a dancing flamingo and some proud peacocks. She sees...
Day 8 of 45 Days 45 Days© Aaron Ansah-Agyeman 8 DAYS Effe wakes up in the most comfortable bed she has ever slept in. Her eyes fall on a luminous clock on a quaint bedside table with a glass top. It is 10:12 a.m. She turns on her back and yawns. She remembers dimly being in Chris’ taxi for many...
Day 7 of 45 Days 45 Days © Aaron Ansah-Agyeman DAY 7 Effe opens her eyes slowly. Her head hurts really badly. She is in a very comfortable bed. She moves her eyes and sees she is in a hospital ward. The room is amazingly beautiful. The curtains are pristine sky blue. There is a little fridge, a small cabinet...
Day 5 of 45 Days DAY 5 ©Aaron Ansah-Agyeman It is night. The club is full. An all-girl music band is playing. The five women in the band are wearing just G-Strings, nipple tassels, white stockings and black long-heeled shoes. Girls wearing only panties are dancing in glass booths around the interior. Some well-dressed men are around the booths, watching...
Day 4 of 45 Days 45 DaysBy Aaron Ansah-Agyeman DAY 4 A group of doctors and nurses are gathered around a patient. The overhead lights are bright. In pans are a variety of complex surgical tools. Around the room are beeping machines and monitors. The patient being operated on is a little boy of just two years. Effe Kedem Hollison,...
Day 3 of 45 Days 45 Days by Aaron Ansah-Agyeman DAY 3 It is two o’clock in the morning. Effe is in her old room in her parents’ house. She has not slept the whole night. Her pain is very great indeed. The television is still on, showing a serial on the Telenovela channel. On the floor are an...
