He sat there, transfixed in his position. It was not an entirely comfortable position, more of a pause in the usual cause of transition. The pause happened as he was about to go empty his bladder, incessantly pounded upon by the gin and tonic he’d been imbibing in a futile mission to drown the pain …
It came as if a gush of wind; fast, unnerving, unpredictable. Worse still, an enigma. It washed over them as quickly as they were aware of it. ‘Hello, bye!’ was its motif. As soon as they got acquainted with it it was gone. Gone like the wind – to abuse the metaphor. ‘Was that?’ They …
Sun so bright, sounds so loud, out he steps into the vortex. His tall stature is no deterrent for the country seeking to devour him whole. “Save us!” he reads between their ululations. “We saved you, njena” they clamour. Smiles wide, his long-lost lover by his side. One step forward; ‘remember the land’ a voice …
From the vantage point provided by the high-raised veranda overlooking the lake, he could barely make out the image of the children chattering away excitedly as only innocent souls can in the far distance. What his diminishing eyesight and non-sonic hearing denied him was that an argument proportional only to revolutionary warfare itself (at least …
They chased the moon. Hand in hand. Sweaty hands squeaking against each other. But never letting go. Tightly clasped. Like white and milk. Two inseparable friends. Except when there’s chocolate involved. Or strawberry. Bubble-gum even. These three tend to break up this pure friendship, in the guise of sweetening things up. Why does anyone need …
How does it happen that four of my top six Mosa Gwangwa songs, (Kgomo, Shebeen, Diphororo, and Flowers of the Nation) are from one album, Flowers of the Nation, one from Kukude (iHome Brew), and only one from A Temporary Inconvenience (the title track) yet it is the later album that I regard the best? …
There lay two socks together. Two socks, not a pair of. No – far from it. One sock, long almost as if a stocking, was a dull pink with shades of wear and tear. Especially around the heel. There the pink had faded to a translucent off-white. Which today looked like a stained white. For …