A Puzzle Of Nostalgia
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A Puzzle Of Nostalgia
Aug 26, 2022
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G’day – And Goodbye
The Oldie
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G’day – And Goodbye
Aug 25, 2021
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THE BLACK SPIDER Part Two
PEARL
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THE BLACK SPIDER Part Two
Oct 30, 2019
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The Periodic Stranger
Nautilus
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The Periodic Stranger
Mar 2, 2017
My roots are in a hilltop village west of Matera, where rabbit and boar run riot in the fields. Figs, apricots, and pears hang in heavy clusters, at eye-level and within easy reach. There, the local girls are famous for their calves, made firm and st
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The Periodic Stranger: When exile becomes home.
Nautilus
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The Periodic Stranger: When exile becomes home.
Dec 12, 2013
My roots are in a hilltop village west of Matera, where rabbit and boar run riot in the fields. Figs, apricots, and pears hang in heavy clusters, at eye-level and within easy reach. There, the local girls are famous for their calves, made firm and st
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My House, My Castle
Visi
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My House, My Castle
Dec 3, 2018
My house is a castle, my castle is a house. It could quite literally be the most magnificent house in Cape Town, and I become awkward when people tell me so. This is because everyone knows the right response to a compliment is to deny it, but as much
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The Cold Light Of Day
Shooting Times & Country
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The Cold Light Of Day
Feb 3, 2021
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Seven Poems
The American Poetry Review
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Seven Poems
May 1, 2023
There was a boy even stranger than I waswho’d call me in the eveningto see if I’d come to Scouts. Something in mehesitated. Then one morning during eighth grade English we got hall passesand did it in a stall in the bathroomtaking turns over the john
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Hear Margaret Atwood Read From 'The Testaments,' Her Sequel To 'The Handmaid's Tale'
NPR
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Hear Margaret Atwood Read From 'The Testaments,' Her Sequel To 'The Handmaid's Tale'
Sep 4, 2019
14 min read
Kids Will Ruin Your Life
Powder
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Kids Will Ruin Your Life
Sep 22, 2017
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Kids Will Ruin Your Life
Powder
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Kids Will Ruin Your Life
Oct 2, 2017
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What Would Your Perfect Day On Grouse Be Like?
Shooting Gazette
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What Would Your Perfect Day On Grouse Be Like?
Jul 18, 2019
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Tessa Castro
The Oldie
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Tessa Castro
Jun 29, 2022
IN COMPETITION No 281 you were invited to write a poem called The Fair. You wrote of no Vanity Fairs, but plenty of funfairs. Susan Greenhill recalled, ‘Brains left in bumper cars, bums soaked on slides, /Steamy breath swirls in the raw morning air.’
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Reading The Game: Stardew Valley
NPR
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Reading The Game: Stardew Valley
Apr 29, 2017
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Holding On To Trail Life
Wilderness
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Holding On To Trail Life
Jun 21, 2021
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Foxes
The Paris Review
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Foxes
Jun 15, 2019
What’s worth happening happens in deep woods. Or so my daughter tells me. Her plotlines: In the deep woods someone is chasing, someone else is getting hacked. Hatchets are lifted, brought downdowndown. Men stutter blood onto snow. A cast of animals—s
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Gold Shells Tumbling
New Zealand Listener
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Gold Shells Tumbling
Jan 2, 2022
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SHEL SILVERSTEIN, Part Of The Family
Antique Trader
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SHEL SILVERSTEIN, Part Of The Family
Nov 25, 2020
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Rose - Tinted Glasses
After Dinner Conversation: Philosophy
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Rose - Tinted Glasses
Nov 10, 2021
From the corner of her eye, Becca watched a small pack of drunk pixies adding salt into her grandmother’s bone china sugar pot. The sugar pot was the oldest thing in the house, even older than grandmother herself. There would be hell to pay if it bro
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The Stackpole Legend
The Threepenny Review
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The Stackpole Legend
Mar 1, 2024
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Feeling Grand?
Cottage Life
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Feeling Grand?
Sep 10, 2020
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Their Fave (fake) Rich Auntie
Visi
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Their Fave (fake) Rich Auntie
Dec 14, 2020
The wonders of Christmas on the Cape Flats are wrapped in big bows we call our family. This is an expensive present you get to enjoy for most of the year with love, as your cousins remain your best and closest friends for most of your life. Although
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Down Home On The Farm
Grass Roots Magazine
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Down Home On The Farm
Oct 1, 2020
How optimistically I envisioned that lockdown would be over last time I wrote Down Home. It is now September and those of us in Victoria have essentially been in lockdown for six months and counting. The novelty has definitely worn off, and at times
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Gran-tastic!
Chat
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Gran-tastic!
Sep 29, 2022
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The Wild Laughter
Guernica Magazine
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The Wild Laughter
Jul 24, 2020
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Five Poems
The American Poetry Review
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Five Poems
Nov 1, 2022
This is the time of year when stormsspin up from distant dustand sand and make their way to us,and we worry and adjust the scales we carry in our headsto account for luck and prayer.We buy batteries and candles, cordsand water to prepare. There are t
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Five Poems
The American Poetry Review
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Five Poems
Sep 1, 2019
Why is it drowning? Why unpinnedfloaty locks, inset with fallenleaf&filth as if any buoyant trash were jewel? Why painted pale—not pale and bloated? Why more adoredminnow-lipped than when she breathed air, spoke? Why love wesuch dank ophelia? Why rat
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DULCE DOMUM From The Wind In The Willows
Cricket Magazine Fiction and Non-Fiction Stories for Children and Young Teens
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DULCE DOMUM From The Wind In The Willows
Nov 1, 2022
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Aligogoro
Guernica Magazine
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Aligogoro
Jun 22, 2020
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Chris Erskine: The First Taste Of The Sweet And Simple Joys In Our Summer
Los Angeles Times
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Chris Erskine: The First Taste Of The Sweet And Simple Joys In Our Summer
May 28, 2019
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