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Bonfire
2011-06-01 Bonfire Pour on more petrol and watch the flames leap higher. They’ll keep you warm on the night when you have no shelter and an eagle nips at the pit of your stomach. They’ll keep you warm on the night when the ...
Watched/watching
2011-06-01 Watched/watching We were being watched by the people on the boat. We were doing things. We were sticking our fingers in each other’s brains. They were watching us as we watched the samurai on horseback race along the ...
Meat: a film scenario
2011-06-01 Meat: a film scenario A man was walking down the street. He went into a butchery to buy some meat. As he left, blood was trickling round his feet. The end.
Lewies Botha se raad aan voornemende digters
2011-05-31 Lewies Botha se raad aan voornemende digters
Another version
2011-05-26 Another version Of the same road And it was raining And they had stopped to help ...
One version of the road
2011-05-26 One version of the road And the sun was behind his head And it was much later than he thought And he thought that he had nothing more to say And he did not know whether he should And he thought that he would anyway And the ...
James Whyle, winner of the PEN/Studzinski Award of 2011, in conversation with Janet van Eeden
2011-05-25 Review by Janet van Eeden James Whyle’s award-winning short story is quite simply titled “The Story”. The title pre-empts the style of the narrative, which is written with a bald matter-of-factness with a ...
Martina Klopper gee raad aan voornemende digters
2011-05-24 Kry ’n mentor, iemand wat jy kan respekteer en vertrou en vice versa. Alle groot musikante en skilders het mentors gehad en baie daarby gebaat.
LitNet-spens: Persoonlike intriges
2011-05-24Die eerste ontmoeting van ’n pa en seun, met ’n komiese inslag. Die gevolge van hierdie ontmoeting is egter tragies.
Suid-Afrika - 'n Rap-sodie op die boud
2011-05-10 Danie Marais lees "Suid-Afrika – ’n Rap-sodie op die boud", sy gedig uit Letters to South Africa.
Ag, anderkant Freud
2011-05-04 Ag, anderkant Freud “Jy is jou tyd ver vooruit,” het hulle vir my gesê terwyl ek op sterwe lê, en vir my ’n pikswart plasmaprent van die swaartekraggat gewys – en neerhalend vertel van ...
LitNet-spens: Stad sonder mure
2011-05-03’n Gesprek tussen twee vriende (’n kranige ginekoloog en ’n gestremde oud-rugbyspeler) waarin die tergendste vrae oor die dood, selfmoord en selfmoordhulp onder die loep geneem word.
African Library: The Sinners
2011-04-26 Yusuf Idris is considered one of the great authors – particularly as a short story writer – in the Arabic literary world.
LitNet-spens: Monoloog uit Medea
2011-04-26Hierdie monoloog is deel van ’n versameling monoloë wat deur Milla Louw uitgekies is as ideaal vir Drama-klaswerk en oudisies.
LitNet-spens: Monoloog uit Die Vrees - Karel
2011-04-26Hierdie monoloog is deel van ’n versameling monoloë wat deur Milla Louw uitgekies is as ideaal vir Drama-klaswerk en oudisies.
LitNet-spens: Monoloog uit Vroue van Troje - Helena
2011-04-26Hierdie monoloog is deel van ’n versameling monoloë wat deur Milla Louw uitgekies is as ideaal vir Drama-klaswerk en oudisies.
The owl and the swan
2011-04-07 The owl and the swan For AK and JS A spotted eagle owl swooped on to his Cape Town roof like the vengeance of the Lord, sat there silently for ...
Misheard
2011-04-05 Misheard A border fence in the rain of the Eastern Cape An empty room on the farm A shadow Is where I see you A dune we once jumped over Is where you are A bag of plastic animals Becoming Games There are no more of our games Only chess With changed ...