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    1, 2, 3 Disappear
    1, 2, 3 Disappear
    1, 2, 3 Disappear
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    1, 2, 3 Disappear

    By Sharon Abimbola Salu

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    On a routine trip to the market, a houseboy meets some visitors from out-of-town who change the course of his life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSharon Abimbola Salu
    Release dateJan 25, 2014
    ISBN9781310960697
    1, 2, 3 Disappear
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    Sharon Abimbola Salu

    Sharon Abimbola Salu grew up in Lagos, Nigeria where she lived until she relocated to the United States of America where she currently resides. Her stories are mostly set in Nigeria, and she writes stories she would like to read. A professed lover of spicy foods, she loves experimenting with new recipes, to the dismay of non-spicy food lovers. Apart from writing, photography is her other hobby. Visit her blog at http://www.sharonsalu.com

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      1, 2, 3 Disappear - Sharon Abimbola Salu

      1, 2, 3 Disappear

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      Sharon Abimbola Salu

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      Copyright © 2014 by Sharon Abimbola Salu

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      Discover other titles by Sharon Abimbola Salu at Smashwords.com:

      Short Stories:

      The Piano Book

      Nosa's Wedding

      Three Mangoes

      The Last Komole

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      Novellas:

      Bewaji's Ankara Adventures: A Novella (The Aso-Ebi Chronicles, Part 1)

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      This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the author’s imagination and used fictitiously.

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      1, 2, 3 Disappear

      Twice it had happened that morning, and Mrs. Phillips was losing her patience. She had called this boy almost five times, before he finally answered. Dotun had only worked for a week, and she was already counting down to the day when she would kick him out of her house. Yes, she had a date picked. One has to be ready for such things, if every single house help you've hired in the last six months has left under less-than-pleasant circumstances. That was Mrs. Phillips' experience and she was ready for Dotun. He was already displaying what she termed the warning signs, and strongly believed that to be forewarned was to be forearmed.

      According to her limited, though varied experience, the warning signs of a house help who was going to leave included the following: spending extended hours running errands and doing chores that normally took less than 30 minutes, breaking expensive china plates, stealing food and anything else that was not glued to the floors of the house, and most importantly,

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