Table of Contents
Dedication.
Author’s Note.
The Chain That Women Carried.
When a Church Carried a Curse.
A Village That Needs Cleaning, Not Quoting.
Still Holding Hands.
A Journey Back to the Front Row.
The Photo That Ended It All.
Two Meals in One Afternoon.
The Woman the Village Could Not Break.
The Silence After Amen.
A Boutique, a Loan, and a Lesson.
They Passed Through Our Village.
Secrets that Saved a Marriage.
A Sunday of Secrets.
The Flower that Never Bloomed.
The Ride that Went Too Far.
Staying Out to Keep the Peace.
God is Giving him his Portion.
They Both Called Him Husband.
The Woman who Saved the Business.
The Manx Cat of Gitithia.
The Calf and the Mother.
Dedication
To lovers of village stories.
Author’s Note
This book was born in me from observation rather than imagination. These stories are ordinary lives—lives lived in churches and marketplaces, in bedrooms and village paths, in silence and in loud confessions. I did not write them to accuse, but to reveal. Not to entertain alone, but to unsettle, to awaken memory, and to provoke reflection. Some stories will feel uncomfortably familiar. That is intentional.
In A Sunday of Secrets & Other Stories I explore the quiet spaces where society often looks away: the consequences of irresponsibility, the weight of unspoken betrayal, the contradictions of faith, the cost of desire, and the slow erosion caused by small compromises. These stories do not pretend that life is tidy or moral lines are always clear. Instead, they ask a harder question—what happens after the prayer, after the excuse, after the lie, after the Amen? If these stories stir discomfort, it is because truth often does. And if they invite reflection, then they have fulfilled their purpose.
David Waithera
A Sunday of Secrets & other stories
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