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THE TYRANT

Wish I could turn back time, to the good old days If
only we’d taken this seriously.

It was the morning of graduation and I had just made
my bed and laid my crisp graduation gown on it, fresh
from the laundry mind you! One can never go wrong
with a lavender fairy detergent-scented gown with a
hint of sandalwood! And today, I need perfection. I
had planned this day to the ‘t’ and nothing was sup-
posed to go wrong!

I had just arrived at school. I had gotten there so early,
it was so early I even had time to watch the news. We
had forced change of government in R, the new head
of state was called Covid. Everyone was dissatisfied
with the old government so we didn’t make a big deal
of our new leader and weren’t worried.

I wish we were; the new leader made changes and we
thought it was for the better but it wasn’t and we
couldn’t take it any longer but it was too late, he had
already corrupted our people and executed them and
dominated the world and we’ve been in hiding to pro-
tect ourselves ever since from Covid and his it’s sol-
diers.

That tyrant of C…

-By Khalidah Usman (Year 9 Benue)

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T H E R E G E N T D I G E S T VOLUME 8 ISSUE 31