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To Revenge or Not To Revenge? – A Short Story
Folake was committed to doing something crazy and I am supposed to dissuade her. It was not really unlike her to come up with very ridiculous ideas that were never carried out. But this time around I could tell she was dead serious with the look in her eyes, and that scared me because this is the worst idea of hers till date. I began to say, Folake you can’t do this, but realized that was a fallacy of moral reasoning, telling a person they can’t do something for the same reason they want to do it. So I tried another tactic, “Folake do you still love him?” Folake did not blink,…
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