IMOGENE’S NOTEBOOK

Simple Ella Was One Who Rejoiced

A short story

Uzoma Okafor
Imogene’s Notebook
2 min readApr 9, 2024

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A stone trail, leading through lush grass land with mountains on the horizon.
Photo by Lili Popper on Unsplash

Every day, when the clock chimed three o’clock, Ella Marie would begin her journey up the hill. She would always pick stones, sometimes five, sometimes seven, along the grassy path and fling them off as if setting them free.

Her hands would get dirty, and she would clean them off on her dress. But that…

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