Short Stories
Parts Of Mama
| January 24, 2019
When I got pregnant at fifteen mama cursed and threw her wig on the floor revealing unkempt bantu knots. “I did not raise a harlot,” she screamed. “Who
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Category: Short Stories
Short Stories
My Seven Daughters
| December 13, 2018
Come close, I want to whisper a secret into your ear. I will poison a little boy by the end of this story but it won’t be out
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Short Stories
Milk Shop Girl
| December 6, 2018
You had never seen such a stunning girl before, you thought as you watched her walk across the petrol station. She was petite and tall in fitting grey
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Short Stories
Home
| November 8, 2018
The first time baba came home drunk, he banged the door in a horrifying cadence that made me jolt awake in terror. There was a heated debate and
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Lifestyle
Tim
| July 12, 2018
When you thought of some girls, you saw the image of a pigeon and dirt under fingernails but not when you thought about her. She had a shape
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Short Stories
Mandazi Kiosk
| June 1, 2018
My skyline is a view of unfinished flats: Cracks on the wall, jutting iron rods on the side, clothes drying on the line. Below the flats: clogged ditches
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Short Stories
Great And Unfortunate Things
| December 13, 2017
I scroll the TV. I have Netflix and Showmax and I still have nothing to watch. I sort of feel like those women who have a wardrobe full
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Short Stories
Dangerous Beauty
| November 29, 2017
She was rosy cheeked and healthy. Giggling and happy. She was not the kind of kid who cried throughout the night or the type who didn’t eat. She
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