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StoryTime: The Aspirant Novelist, the Gqeberha Filmmaker And The History Of Light In November
I water my plants when I come home. Snip off a dead leaf. My mother heard the key in the door. She calls out...
The Essayist, Genocide In Africa And My Chemical Imbalance Is The Reason I Am Sad
Hiroshima is now gilded in history. These are lines for poetry, illness. It’s become an anthem for the wreck that I have become, my...
The Artist Unleashed: Psychosis, Denial, Mental Illness and Emotional Support For The Poet
Connecting the dots
The case study Miriam Gelhor did not understand how to use the word bathos in a sentence. Did that make her stupid...
Front Doors That Have Let Poetry Into My Life
The house smelled like sugar biscuits, fried onions, and cabbage bredie. To me, it was a rare and comforting smell. There was something almost...
Blame It On Apartheid: The Middle Class, Relational Hunger And The Modern Family Dynamic
Lennox
Lennox is down on his luck. In his late thirties he sports a beard. He looks older than he really is, has dreadlocks and...
The Novelist’s Burning Sincerity To Bring Words To Life
Here there are no ducks in the park in their own world of silence marking time with their song. I am utterly alone. I...
12 Rules For My Life: My Antidote To This Century
Rule 1 Be kind and expect nothing in return. Be the eternal optimist.
Rule 2 Have no expectations because that will literally kill your self-esteem.
Rule...
Power, War and Critical Thinking
Critical thinking and self-mastery are established roleplayers of the intellectual personality. The journey of life should be to remain self-aware in the event of...
How Dr Jordan B. Peterson Changed My Life
The steak knives were missing. Is there any value in that truth?
Give me a little earth. A place in the sun. A bowl of...
A Ghost Story About An Ancestor From The West Indies
Ella's (the birth name of the Dominican novelist and short story writer Jean Rhys’) ghost sits at the foot of my bed staring at...