“THREE BY GERSH” at x-r-a-y
I used to say I couldn’t travel because I didn’t have the time, but now I’ve got all the time in the world because the world isn’t using it. READ MORE
“TURMERICA” ON TREAT (podcast)
It was the year we decided every problem could be fixed with turmeric. LISTEN (2 MINS)
“Stalk Me Gently” in Tin House
When this is all over I think even you would concede that it took some extra courage for me to come out here and spend the morning under this bush watching you and preparing what I am preparing to do, with a weapon no less. After all, we Manstream men have never been courageous when it’s called for. READ MORE
“Idi Amin Will Get You” in The Mississippi Review
Cam is saving up. One more week’s pocket money and she will have her Sea Monkeys. She wants these creatures more than anything, more than a broken arm or a limp. READ MORE
“Red Tide” in One Story
Because of our mothers, Nick is forced to play with me. The moms met on the Kenilworth tennis courts at the beginning of summer. It’s too hot for Cape Town and my mother takes the heat personally, sulking in a pool chair on the beige lawn, staring at the brown hole where the pool will go, but not this summer, next summer, so my father says. READ MORE
“Home Helper” in Dinaane: Stories by South African Women
Mike Pringle walks with his hands on his hips, watching as men push wheelbarrows around the side of the house. “Over here, boys,” he says, pointing to the back of the garden, where other men push machines and smear cement. He is building a tennis court. READ MORE
“On Safari” in Open City
Claire had leapt at the chance of going on safari with her mother because because for four days, nothing much would be expected of her. READ MORE
“In The Succulent Garden” in New Contrast
Beware Bloody Burgoyne!
This is scratched onto a toilet stall at Livingstone Girls Junior School in Cape Town, but Viv Le Roux and her best friend, Sarah Friedman, are unlucky. They have been placed in Mrs. Rosemary Burgoyne’s Standard Two class and there is nothing they can do. READ MORE
“Now We Are Twenty-Six” in New Contrast
Cape Town, 1973: She is a year old and eats anything they give her, even garden snails, which her brother pulls off plants and hands to her lovingly. READ MORE