AJ Cities3 chapters · The hairdresser outside the gate
Tara's Story
Tara is the hairdresser at the Palmline Unisex Salon, the little shop outside the main gate with the cross-eyed man on the sign. Half the estate has sat in her chair: guests waiting at the gate, off-duty officers, Prizm's staff before a party night, the Warden's boys in black. Everybody talks. Tara keeps it. This is her story in three chapters: how she got the chair, life in Room 7 of Iloro House, and the night the mirror heard something she could not keep.
Chapters
- 1The Chair"What the mirror hears, the mirror keeps." "But the mirror can't hear." "Exactly. Be like the mirror." · 6 min
- 2Room 7"Two thousand naira. That's the price." "I told you, I haven't got..." "I know. Pay me when the gate opens." · 6 min
- 3What the Mirror HearsThe clippers did not stop. That is the first thing a hairdresser learns. The clippers do not stop. · 6 min