Continuous Writing: Creative Writing II

In our previous lesson, we discussed the features of a story and you were assigned to write a story that ends with the words: “Had I known, I wouldn’t have believed him.” Compare your composition with the following model essay.

       This story of mine is directed at the young women who fall into the arms of some callous and shallow-minded men who promise them heaven and earth in order to get in between their legs. This is a true-life experience that I would like to share with our young and unsuspecting ladies.

       I graduated from the University of Benin in 1999 with a second-class honours degree in Physics. During my undergraduate years, I was never involved with the opposite sex. My mother had strictly warned me against having an affair with any man so that I wouldn’t get pregnant or contract any of the sexually transmitted diseases that are rampant nowadays.