Victor Kemboi
Kemboi Kipkoech Victor is a teacher. He studied at the University of Eldoret and started his career in Nandi. Besides teaching, Kemboi has passion in fiction and loves reading and writing stories in his free time.
For readers who love living in the modern times, Kemboi gives a great escape in his stories. He explores the themes of modernity, mostly revolving around family relationships, disillusionment and hope. Currently he has more than fifteen short stories and two novels written in English.
Find him at kemboivic96@yahoo.com or kemboivic66@gmail.com

THE RETURN
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July 8, 2020
By Kemboi Victor When Benjamin Mugeni woke up, he was perturbed. For so many hours he had been sleeping and he could not reckon where he was. He thought he…
INSIDE THE STRANGE BASKET
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June 4, 2020
By Kemboi Victor Trevor Mukami exited the restaurant and stood facing a fleet of cars at the parking lot. He admired his new Mercedes Benz and smiled, longing to meet…
AFTER THE STORM
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April 26, 2020
By Kemboi Victor The neighborhood was unusually restrained that morning. Very few vehicles and motorbikes roared on the road and only a few people were seen walking quietly, most of…
DOWN THE AISLE, OUT OF LIFE
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April 12, 2020
By Kemboi Victor As I watched her walk down the aisle of the decorated church holding flowers against her tummy I admired her like the first time I saw her.…
THE END OF THE BARGAIN [Pt 2]
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March 4, 2020
By Kemboi Victor I should tell my father to help me bring Tina back, I thought later and relaxed. My father had just retired from the army and he had…
THE END OF THE BARGAIN [Pt 1]
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March 1, 2020
By Kemboi Victor It was two months since Tina left after we had had a little fight and I could not fathom ways of bringing her back. That night I…
GOOD FOR EVIL [Part Two]
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February 6, 2020
By Kemboi Victor By morning the following day I had acquired everything Madam Boswony had demanded of me. I walked to the Transfil Plaza, room 211, Worldwide Internet Company offices…
GOOD FOR EVIL [Part One]
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January 31, 2020
By Kemboi Victor The moment I stepped out of my office my eyes landed on her. Madam Boswony, I recalled, was the toughest and the unkindest boss I had ever…
CLOSELY APART
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January 7, 2020
By Kemboi Victor When our eyes met she frowned. Her hands then started to shake like those of an alcoholic. If I am not wrong, she was also feeling some…
SECRETS FROM MY LOVE [Part Two]
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December 13, 2019
Get Part One HERE BY Kemboi Victor “Some girls are funny sweetheart.” I continued. “Their eyes do not go beyond their noses. Their minds refuse to think when they see…
SECRETS FROM MY LOVE
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December 8, 2019
By Kemboi Victor I first saw her from the waiting room being cleared by the secretary at the reception. She looked thin, tired, emaciated, stressed, unkempt and desperate. She was…
PAYBACK TIME
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November 11, 2019
By Kemboi Victor The six elders sat under the giant Mogoiywet tree of Kaimen shopping center, as they flashed glances on curious villagers who were seated on the grass. This…
AND THEN CAME REGRETS..
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August 17, 2019
That evening my mind was not calm. Unlike other days when thoughts of unfinished work would be bothering me, I was thinking about the death of Tracie my four years’…
FREEDOM IS COMING TOMORROW [PART TWO]
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June 25, 2019
By Kemboi Victor Inside the cabin of the cruiser was nearly dark as it was covered, such that it was difficult for light to come in; and the policemen hung…
FREEDOM IS COMING TOMORROW [PART ONE]
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June 21, 2019
By Kemboi Victor I had never thought that a day would come when I would end up at the dungy, sweat-smelling cells of Shimoni Central Police station. I had…
THE GIRL DOWNSTAIRS
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May 3, 2019
By Kemboi Victor The rain that had kept me in bed for hours stopped and alternated with the warm rays of the chrome shaped yellow sun that beamed proudly from…
GUARDIAN ANGELS Part Two
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April 1, 2019
I entered my cubicle hurriedly and realized Terry was lying on the floor motionless. It seemed like the situation had gone from bad to worse. I knelt next to her,…
GUARDIAN ANGELS -PART ONE
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March 7, 2019
By Kemboi Victor I understood the nature of Terry’s sickness well and I was not ready to see her in that distressing state for the entire night. We had been…
BELLA’S SURPRISE
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February 3, 2019
By Kemboi Victor I have been sitting at Barizi Gardens for over an hour waiting for my friend Sam to arrive from the other side of Eldoret town, where he had…
Night of Redemption
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January 5, 2019
By Kemboi Victor At first Kipruto thought it was the normal wails that at times hit his village at night when thieves invaded. But on listening keenly, he realized it was…
Girlfriend for hire
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December 1, 2018
By Kemboi Victor Bryson’s return to Kenya from the States after the completion of his Masters degree finally came with jubilation. He was really excited to be home again, to reunite…
Seriously Guilty, Part Two
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November 1, 2018
If you missed Part One.. Get it here By Kemboi Victor Our stopover was at Nakuru. Though I was really pressed and badly needed to go to the washroom, I…
Seriously Guilty
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October 1, 2018
By Kemboi Victor I came to know Juliet in my first month at Huduma Bora Microfinance Bank in Nairobi, where I had gotten job as a teller. She was a Clinician…
The Last Drop; a New Era
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September 2, 2018
By Kemboi Victor Tony Alfayo walked about at the reception of Jamboni Maternity Wing petrified, distressed and looking very tired. For about a day and half now, he had been here…