“And All Of Its Teeth”

“They’ve hidden themselves from the world, and all of its teeth.”

Review: Buried Treasure by Sven Axelrad

Buried Treasure is the debut novel of South African author, Sven Axelrad. Herewith a rambling review, of sorts.

“Cormorant / Confluence / Crocodile”

“To move as a river does, to be carried forward by my own unfolding.”

“Even the Monstrous”

“I was twenty years old when I saw a man throw himself from a window. First dead body I’d ever seen. Let me tell you, real blood is nothing like the movie blood, and real death is nothing like the movie death.”

What Kind of Animal

What Kind Of Animal – one writer’s response to Covid-19 and life under lockdown.

Small Town Blues – or – Things I Lost While Living

The Igby Prize for Nonfiction Winner about the woes and wonders of living in a town with no Wi-Fi.

The Centennial Game — A Conversation with Jason Mykl Snyman

A conversation between Agboola Timi and myself about the writing of The Centennial Game.

“The Centennial Game”

“Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess,

and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.”

– Terry Pratchett

SHE SAID / HE SAID – Anniversaries

Paige Nick and I talk about how technology has taken all the romance out of anniversaries, and how men (me) can barely remember their own Mother’s birthdays, never mind other special dates.

SHE SAID / HE SAID – Fashion

Yolisa Qunta and I chat about rocking a pair of crocs in public, chicks who wear heels bigger than your manhood and ‘undawear that’s funtawear.’

“One Hundred Lashes”

“And I had done an hellish thing,

And it would work ’em woe:

For all averred, I had killed the bird

That made the breeze to blow.

Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay

That made the breeze to blow!”

“Apple Tree”

“There were tremors within him.
It began around his left eye, fifty five years ago, and she remembered the exact moment.”