Most things were still the same. Hot chocolate was still sweet, the kitchen floor was still cold to the touch of the soles of her feet, and when the wind blew, it tickled Nomsa’s cheeks. Some …
Category: Fiction
I sat down on my bed, picked up the receiver and dialled four digits. When the beep told me I was connected I entered my thirteen digits. I could feel my pulse travel through my clenched …
Lerato folded her hands behind her head and leaned back in her swivel chair. An air vent hummed softly above her and suddenly puffed a blast of warmth into her face. She jumped, startled. When she …
There is something that happens to you when life doesn’t work out the way you plan it. This thing it lives and breathes in your head and your guts, twisting about this way and that, warping …
Let me not romanticize it. It wasn’t in some mall or social event or all those nice places. I looked tired and drawn, and felt like shit the night he walked in, stood over my bed, …
When Lerato and Khalid emerged from the office, disheveled and glowing with delight, Paul was in the parking lot waiting for her… Nah… That’s not what happened! Just kidding! This is what really happened next. …
God Adventurers, I am so full of love right now. Do you feel it? Do you feel my love? Do you feel me loving up on you and whatnot? Well, lie back and enjoy it because …
Paul was staring at his phone with incredulity. “No, you bloody sod! I just want to change our travel dates!” he was screaming. Sweat was beginning to bead on his forehead. Lerato watched him pace the …
The phone rang at ten o’clock that morning just as it had for the last two days. Khalid was calling again; and he would call again at four that afternoon and finally at nine at night. …
I am not sure how I hadn’t looked around the first time I arrived; maybe I was too excited at seeing Greg again, but I remembered making an offhand remark about being introduced to his roommate. …