ADIM – A Short Story

  I was only in JSS 2 when my parents died. Used to living in a place of comfort, I tried so hard to get back everything I once had, but it wasn’t so easy.

  “Would you like to work with me, Adim?”

  “Yes, Boss.”

  “Here,” I was handed a gun. And that was how it began.

  Paid 50 every month; a heavy sum I could never achieve by doing meagre jobs, I was able to gain ground in two years—was only 15—was ready to walk away and be a boss of my own. A better boss than ‘he’. I was certain that I could handle the situation.

  Being part of a syndicate gave me the confidence I thought I’d never have. My blood boiled every time. Each time I held a gun, I felt an ounce to ki*ll. And it was that spirit that drove me to commit the greatest crime… killing my boss Mtagi… a story of how I’d done it to be written another day.

 

~A Jess Short