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Fate Decides

In my head I heard Vera Lynn’s voice as I finally managed to prise open the trunk’s rusty lock, “Some letters tied with blue/A photograph or two . . ....

Fate Decides

In my head I heard Vera Lynn’s voice as I finally managed to prise open the trunk’s rusty lock, “Some letters tied with blue/A photograph or two . . ....

Headhunter

“You have to be joking…”   Det Sgt Danster addressed this to the phone beside her alarm clock. The two instruments sat there, smugly colluding in this, a faintly luminous...

Headhunter

“You have to be joking…”   Det Sgt Danster addressed this to the phone beside her alarm clock. The two instruments sat there, smugly colluding in this, a faintly luminous...

Ouma and Miena

Ouma Hattingh was born in Cradock in the nineteenth century, in a different time. Oupa came from Tarkastad, to where his forefathers had trekked from the Cape of Good Hope....

Ouma and Miena

Ouma Hattingh was born in Cradock in the nineteenth century, in a different time. Oupa came from Tarkastad, to where his forefathers had trekked from the Cape of Good Hope....

Musings

Sitting in his old chair, Ben thinks of times long past. And once again he is back there, and re-living those experiences of years gone by. He is back standing...

Musings

Sitting in his old chair, Ben thinks of times long past. And once again he is back there, and re-living those experiences of years gone by. He is back standing...

The Wrath Of The Innocent

Jan Odendaal  walked out of de Jager’s Cash and Carry  into the Carnarvon sunlight and stood there, the smell of blue and white mottled soap and paraffin clinging to his...

The Wrath Of The Innocent

Jan Odendaal  walked out of de Jager’s Cash and Carry  into the Carnarvon sunlight and stood there, the smell of blue and white mottled soap and paraffin clinging to his...

Milkmaid

When Phillipe left, taking his fathomless dark eyes, his full lips and flawless skin, body and hair with him, he also took the keys to the Hertz rental, my cell-phone,...

Milkmaid

When Phillipe left, taking his fathomless dark eyes, his full lips and flawless skin, body and hair with him, he also took the keys to the Hertz rental, my cell-phone,...