The doctor was surprised. Looking up from his clipboard, he watched a girl rise from her waiting room chair, the arm of a seated boy gently guiding her as she stood. Without looking at the intake form, the doctor guessed they were fifteen or sixteen
Month: March 2013
A Toe in the Water by Renay Allen
I step to the seashore. It?s raining? again. Froth lingers at the edge, discoloured a putrid yellow as if the waves have been out on the town and drunk a little too much
He Wanders Lonely by Frank Joussen
?Cloud? isn?t his real name, of course. It is ?Claude?. But his new classmates in idyllic Chester have never met a French exchange student before and got him wrong. They have never bothered giving it another thought. They are sure that his name is ?Cloud?, but that doesn?t mean you should ridicule him for it; he is a Frenchman after all.
The Taste of 3 A.M. by Mercel Meyers
In the short story, The Taste of 3 A.M. by Mercel Meyers, the good the bad comes back around.
Africa in Short by Marijke Hillmann
Marijke Hillmann is our first featured recurring author. She is currently writing a novel about a 40 year period she spent in Africa. We are very overjoyed to have her works on our site.
Broken Windows by Marijke Hillmann
Broken Windows by Marijke Hillmann It is lunch time in a Johannesburg factory. Kagiso, Gift and Tau are leaning against a wall in the scorching midday sun. Gift looks at a young woman leaving the building. “Who is she?” he asks. Shifting the blade of grass he is chewing on, Kagiso replies: “She…
The Ragged-Trousered Misogynist by Sue Roff
She came to know a place, a very cheap hotel, where she had no past but was only the present. Sitting on the verandah at night watching mosquitoes immolate themselves in the kerosene lamps.
The Art of Learning by Kristina England
It all started when Jamie dusted off her Encyclopedias.
She was in the attic with her seven year old son, John. She stared at the heavy texts and shook her head. Now you could read about Giraffes or Atlas Moths on Wikipedia.