Chicken Bone

The restaurant industry is one of the most stressful in the world. It is a place where many people need to be high or drunk to deal with the stress.

In this short story CHICKEN BONE, was one of the author’s co-workers in the frenetic restaurant business. He was one those alcoholics who never passed on an opportunity to feed his vice, even if his job was on the line. He came up with lies to save his job, yet one of his lies caught up with him in a very twisted way. His short life, like his stature, became the most hilarious story on everyone’s lips at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town, South Africa.

“You tell the story of Chicken Bone very well with a humorous and racy style. It was a fun read. You also treat your characters with compassion. All of this makes the book a very good read and I thoroughly enjoyed it.”

-Editor’s comment

Nkulu KikudjiI was born on September 05, 1978 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

In 1999 the country went through a rough political war that caused most young people to flee, to find refuge in other countries in the world. Nkulu’s mother decided to take a chance with him and send him to South Africa. The plan was for Nkulu to continue with his engineering studies that he had abandoned in his second year at the University of Lubumbashi in the DRC. Things did not work out as planned. Ill health and life circumstances forced him to stick to working as a waiter in restaurants ever since.