| The Day South Africa Moved
| | We were given a theme at this writing club I belong to which was "perpetual motion." That is such a... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 26-10-06 |
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| Umthunzi (revised)
| | Simpiwe Ramaphosa frightened people but this was of no real concern to him. He was effective and that was enough. Effectiveness was what the city he lived in lacked. It had become a chaotic society,... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 31-08-06 |
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| My Aunt Alice
| | My Aunt Alice In the furthest end of my grandmotherâ??s house stood a cupboard filled until the contents teetered with the past lives of my mum and my Aunt Alice. For many hours I would gaze at the... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 31-08-06 |
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| Awakening (updated)
| | Tito found himself on the stairs. His head hurt as though a hundred weasels were racing around in that small space smashing hammers against his skull. His mouth tasted like month old yoghurt and even... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 06-08-06 |
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| Normal
| | Sometimes I sit in restaurants watching other people sip wine or some other drink of their choice. Not with any sense of yearning, but with a deep belly-laugh inside my mind. What was I thinking all... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 06-08-06 |
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| My hero
| | We stood in the bathroom, Katy and I, her body too small to climb onto the toilet seat and her arms... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 05-08-06 |
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| Ugly Bug
| | The sleepy, leafy suburbs of Johanesburg, known to her lovers as Jozi, harbour an undesirable. Viewed from a satellite, or any of the sky scrapers, the city looks like a rainforest. Not all of the... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 24-05-06 |
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| Ah, men
| | I bought a foot-high resin nun and it has given me back my sex life. Not exactly a recommendation... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 23-05-06 |
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| Basil and the Baobab
| | Basil Forbes was a great artist. His genius was known and respected throughout the world. Anybody... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 17-05-06 |
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| Patsy and the Pig Tree
| | One taste of a Bacon Kip had been enough to get six-year old Patsy Goldblatt into serious trouble.... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 16-05-06 |
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