Geegpay Writing Challenge by Itoro Akinbamiyorin.
It was the last day of the 2019 GTCO festival. After hours of documenting the event in photographs which very few people would likely see, I still had a final task to photograph the runway show at 6pm. Then I had to wriggle out of the crowd and traffic fast enough to make it to the pharmacy three streets from my home. Baba Khemist was the only one who sold my mother’s arthritis medication at prices we could afford, and she’d run out two days ago. But that was still three hours away. In my current moments of pedal soreness, sour words began to whisper themselves around me again. Is this really worth it? Suddenly, a line began to form to my left for entry into a makeup Masterclass. Not very related to my line of work, but all I saw was a free hour-long seat. So I joined up. The speaker, Sir James, began the session with an iridescent demonstration on his model, and then slipped comfortably into industry talk. He opened the floor wide to questions, and his response to one was an...