Fiction & Poetry

As he boards a Nairobi-bound Kangaroo Shuttle, her teary face is on his mind. She stands there motionless, looking on. The Shuttle leaves as the stage is ruffled with hooting vehicles, revving car engines, stale sweat and farts from touts, and the scramble for passengers.

Miss Duduzile Zwane is a modern young woman with the perfect life in Johannesburg. But she is troubled by persistent strange feelings. Following an encounter with a soothsayer, she embarks on a pilgrimage to a sacred cave - where she finds an unexpected source of enlightenment.

Your father, with a dagger deeply planted in his heart, must have died in great pain. How would you want to die?

You can't hear his voice when he cries, “When did this happen?!” It is the cry of a drowning man. But you can't hear; your waves are roaring.

A man, in Zimbabwe, visits a small town and decides to stop for a few beers at the nightclub.

The kid saw it first. Everyone else was busy talking and sipping tea when the kid suddenly cried out,”Snake!” The father leapt up, swift,...

In a dystopian African setting where only a certain class of people are permitted to possess libido, with the aim of controlling population during hard times, a man struggles to find a way to revive his libido and save his marriage.

A young boy joins his friends for what he hopes will be a random day of swimming and mischief. When events take a turn for the worse, everyone is on their own as the inevitable wrath of mothers threatens their very lives.

She doesn’t walk to him to inquire what has happened. It is a taboo for pregnant women to see drowned bodies otherwise the spirits roaming the river would enter her womb and inhabit the unborn.