Fortune Nwaiwu

Chief Editor's Notes

One Year Pregnancy Edited by Fortune Nwaiwu

^{"One Year Pregnancy" is a story powerfully told to display the life of a teenager who lives under a terrible curse laid by her school teacher. She grows and becomes a wealthy business woman, but her joy as a successful woman is daunted and prone to a serious antsy, and averse to repose, when she married Udochukwu and became pregnant. Her pregnancy that has lingered to a year nearly brings a doom to her faith, and marriage. She seeks solution for her problem from a priest who only discovers the cause of her problem but without finding a solution. What will Nkechi do to save her life since she has gone to different places, including prayer houses with no solution to her problem? At this time, Nkechi is marooned in an endless grief. It is crystal clear to her that her plight is not an ordinary one, but one contracted by her teenage misdemeanour -- a violence done on her school teacher who disciplined her in the class. As the cause of Nkechi's problem-- her inability to deliver, is discovered, the story further puts it's reader in suspense keeping two possible questions in mind: Wouldn't there be a solution for Nkechi's horrible situation? Is there a deus ex machina to bring the conflict into a resolution? These questions hang in the reader's lips to the end of the story. --- Nwaiwu Fortune Emerence, the author of DEVIL IN THE CATHEDRAL, and ECHOES OF THE WIDOWS.}