Tag: Fiction
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Good Scammer
“If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach him to scam you feed him for a lifetime.”
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When I Sing, Mountains Dance
““Nothing lasts very long,” the mountains say chillingly, “Not a thing. Not stillness. Nor calamity. Nor the sea. Nor your ugly little children.””
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The Promise
“Apartheid has fallen, see, we die right next to each other now, in intimate proximity. It’s just the living part we still have to work out.”
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The Midnight Library
“It is easy to mourn the lives we aren’t living. Easy to wish we’d developed other talents, said yes to different offers.”
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We Used To Live Here
“But that is just my imagination, and a person can imagine all sorts of things if they take the time to just be creative.”
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The Heart Goes Last
“If you do bad things for reasons you’ve been told are good, does it make you a bad person?”
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Queenie
“Maybe if all ah we had learned to talk about our troubles, we wouldn’t carry so much on our shoulders all the way to the grave.”
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