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Issue 2: Stories find stories…

  • Short fiction by Bongani Kona, Makena Onjerika, Alexandra Parrs, Mohammed Shehu, and Don Stevenson.
  • Nonfiction by Jamil F. Khan, Zanta Nkumane, and Emily Schlink.
  • Poetry by Verushcka Garises, Michael Kelleher, Esperance Luvindao, and Pedro Vorster.
  • Photography by Hallie Haller, Rofhiwa Maneta, and Shawn Van Eeden.

Cover image: Dry Dock, Walvis Bay, by Shawn Van Eeden.

1st Feb 20202nd Feb 2020 Rémy NgamijeIn Issue 2

Stories Find Stories… Always and inevitably.
1st Feb 20202nd Feb 2020 Alexandra ParrsIn Issue 2

Sharia Baudelaire A man, a box, some poetry—a journey, a migration.
1st Feb 20204th Jun 2020 Emily SchlinkIn Issue 2

Realisations Who can know the true intimacy of medicine?
1st Feb 20202nd Feb 2020 Don StevensonIn Issue 2

Woman On A Train A train ride, a stranger, a resurfacing of the past.
1st Feb 20202nd Feb 2020 Verushcka GarisesIn Issue 2

Xû- Ī Xats Ta //U Khoe Kai Words of warning to the slaves of alcohol—a Khoekhoegowab poem.
1st Feb 20202nd Feb 2020 Zanta NkumaneIn Issue 2

A Mourning Song Time passes but the grief remains—a remembrance.
1st Feb 20202nd Feb 2020 Shawn Van EedenIn Issue 2

Dry Dock The sea, the sea! Take me back to the sea!
1st Feb 20202nd Feb 2020 Esperance LuvindaoIn Issue 2

Drag! O! The desire and attempt to make words ryhme.
1st Feb 20202nd Feb 2020 Verushcka GarisesIn Issue 2

#Khariro Mîrosa? All it takes is one disastrous word—a Khoekhoegowab poem.
1st Feb 20202nd Feb 2020 Jamil F. KhanIn Issue 2

Activism Beyond Wokeness In the fight to raise our collective consciousness even one step back is one too many—an activist's manifesto.
1st Feb 20202nd Feb 2020 Mohammed ShehuIn Issue 2

City Heights A view from the height of one’s lowest point.
1st Feb 20202nd Feb 2020 Pedro VorsterIn Issue 2

Let Us A brief treatise, a shifting gaze.
1st Feb 20202nd Feb 2020 Hallie HallerIn Issue 2

Night Watch Sunset to sunrise, a photographer’s sentry duty watching and waiting for the light.
1st Feb 20202nd Feb 2020 Pedro VorsterIn Issue 2

Embalming The Past Take the horror and turn it into art, into poetry.
1st Feb 20202nd Feb 2020 Michael KelleherIn Issue 2

Cape Town Tourist Mid-air, two motions, two forms of time—spinning, but standing still.
1st Feb 20202nd Feb 2020 Bongani KonaIn Issue 2

House Girl How does it feel to be waiting?
1st Feb 20202nd Feb 2020 Verushcka GarisesIn Issue 2

#Hôare-Au A caution to the bearer of rumours—a Khoekhoegowab poem.
1st Feb 20202nd Feb 2020 Makena OnjerikaIn Issue 2

Body In Six Parts Pride. Self-importance—words that belong only to girls who say no.
1st Feb 20202nd Feb 2020 Pedro VorsterIn Issue 2

Homo Sapiensaria The long cloak of history wraps itself ever tighter.
1st Feb 20202nd Feb 2020 Rofhiwa ManetaIn Issue 2

My Work Is Not Yet Done Nameless and faceless—a macabre visual investigation of workplace anxiety.

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