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Short Stories
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The Maw 2
I found myself alone, which is something I must never do. The view from here is enough to drive someone mad, or so I’m told. They keep me from looking, shepherding my eyes away...
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CROCODILE
His back is against us. Arched like a cat's. He hurriedly tucks at the hindrance at his waistline, with the fluster of a four-year old struggling with shoelace. But his fingers tell a tale...
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False Hope
Waiting for you to talk to me is like seeing a comet flash across the night sky. Once it actually happens, it's exciting. But only for a fleeting moment- and then you're gone again.
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Glittering lights in that house…(Story of a silent humanist)
The silent humanist helping students to study without any care for name or fame was most inspiring. we drift apart after our studies.. not everybody gets a chance to thank and show their gratitude to...
Suddenly heavens opened up that evening. The Professor was totally unprepared. Rains were torrential and his consulting hours had just ended. He had just got ready to go home and the rains started to...
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HALLOW ONE
I like Horror movies and the powers of the mind. I just took the two interests of mine and put them together.
Life as a lone Night Auditor at the Love Inn Hotel is precious for someone of my personality and character that is misanthropic thus quite independent. The Night Audit shift is usually quiet with...
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bang bang
sex inpired me to write this piece because without it as we all know there will be no life.
Bang Bang! A violent thrust on the door.
'Hold on,' she says. I'll be with you now.
She wraps a towel around her waist, expensive waist which she always get praised for, An hour glass waist...
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The Visitor
The unknown
Namibia, the Land of the Brave. A land so majestic that it is home to the oldest human inhabitants of earth, the San clan who harbor tales, or rather accounts of untold anomalies forever...
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Caught In The Spotlight
This is part of a series about Arcadia Thiessen, the unfaithful wife, and the consequences that flowed from her significant infidelity being discovered by her husband, Tabernacle Calderone.
Arcadia Consults Siobhan Blanco The day after Arcadia received the letter Calderone sent her she went to see her solicitor, Siobhan Blanco, about it. Blanco read the letter and focussed on its most...
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WHO DANCES NEXT
A succint flashback to my teenage years. I had failed an exam in school. I was at church when a successful classmate was announced for thanksgiving for exam success in church. She felt closer...
The rain clouds massed after scudding in slow motion, and the recurrent flash of lightening gave a false alarm of a thunder that...
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The Rugby Game
Rugby is a game that, from March to October is watched, debated, screamed at and idolised in every pub in South Africa from Cape Town to Musina! When at school I never wanted to...
A Game for the Brain Dead!
By
Angus Murray
Rugby! Everyone has gone rugby mad! When I turn on the radio all I hear is rugby this and rugby that. It’s November, nearly the middle of summer...
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