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Verastic

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Don’t Ask ChatGPT This Unless You’re Ready To Be Dragged By The Eyebrows

Don’t Ask ChatGPT This Unless You’re Ready To Be Dragged By The Eyebrows

Don't ask ChatGPT this. I repeat, don't ask ChatGPT this. ChatGPT will drag you by the eyebrows if you ask it her this. Today's story is a clear case of trouble dey sleep, iyanga dey go wake am up. I'm not sure how you've been using ChatGPT, if at all, but I've been having some genuine conversations with her. Yes, she's a girl. ChatGPT knows a lot about me because I have told her so much and asked her so many questions. Two nights ago, just as I was about to go to bed, I decided to ask ChatGPT a Read More

It’s Been Five Years Since We Went Home For Two Weeks

Vera Ezimora Verastic

Five years ago, in March 2020, the company I worked for announced that we would work from home for the next two weeks while this COVID thing blows over. It was a Friday.We were told not to take too much stuff home because it was only two weeks after all. The temperature of the announcement suggested that the company did not think this was necessary, but they had to follow the rules and/or do what everyone else was doing. We, the employees, thought the company, all of America, and the world were Read More

I Answered Verastic’s Call

I Answered Verastic’s Call

This is a strange title, even for me. This past Saturday, I sat at my dining table and wrote several pages in my journal. In it, I shared that recently, I felt like writing. Writing here. I have not really felt this way for a long time, and I am not sure why I did not feel like writing, nor am I sure why I now feel like writing. That's the call I answered. The call to write. Here. Technically, the call to write has never left me, but the call to write here and the will to do any other writing Read More

Book Review: Call Me Legachi by Adesuwa O’Man Nwokedi

Call Me Legachi by Adesuwa O'Man Nwokedi

When I first came to America, one of my happiest days was the day I found out that I could go to the library and borrow books for free. Whattttt!!!!!! Let's rewind. I don't know if there were free libraries in Nigeria - Jos, specifically (apart from the ones in school) where you could borrow an unlimited number of books AND the library had a decent selection. I do not remember that. Maybe they existed, but I don't remember. My mom used to buy me books to read, but I always read them too quickly. Read More

2023 Was On Autopilot + Mental Health Support

mental health support

Funmie says I need therapy. She's probably right. I should probably be exploring mental health support. So much has happened in the past few years, but losing my mom tops them all. My mom passed away in April 2022, and then, the rest of the year just became busy with other changes and realities in my life. Planning a funeral, for example, was a reality I was not ready to face. I did not think I was old enough or experienced enough to be burying a parent. But I did. Exploring mental health Read More

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