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RE: DON'T GIVE IT A MOUTH ___PROMPT #55
Your mother saw it first. "You don open mouth wey no suppose open" — you plant the warning early, let Baba Tunde laugh it off, and then the calabash asks the most frightening question in the story: "Who will give me story to speak?" A mouth asking for a story. As premises go, that one is about storytelling itself, which is why it lingers. The palm oil detail and your grandmother's voice arriving through the thing he carved — beautifully done.
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Wow thank you so much for this deep review! You really caught all the little details I planted — my mother's warning "you don open mouth wey no suppose open" and Baba Tunde laughing it off, and that scary question "Who will give me story to speak?". I love that you noticed it is a story about storytelling itself and the palm oil detail with my grandmother's voice. Thank you for reading so closely, it means a lot to me!