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A Saturday morning at The Commons, Muizenberg
I am sitting outside on the balcony – the smell of cigarette and cigar smoke tantalizing and annoying. There is an underlying tang of the salt rich sea…
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Kerry Hammerton
The Girl Who Changed Everything
It started on a Monday at lunchtime. The Girl Who Changed Everything opened her fridge and contemplated the brie and onion marmalade that she usually…
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Early Morning Coffee Shop
Gale force winds. Slanted rain. Flooding expected. The door is closed. The coffee shop full. The hiss from the coffee machine competes with voices and…
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Kerry Hammerton
The New Year’s Eve Party
The other story the villagers liked to tell was the one where Mr Salomon brought a golf club to the New Year’s Eve party, his bald head gleaming under…
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The Week After He Fixed the Dripping Tap
The winter they had been married for twenty years the pipes burst. It was a cold winter. Snow drifts obscured the front door for days. As the snow began…
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Washing Dishes
The kitchen window overlooks the neighbour’s wall. Our wall. But it was built and paid for by HIM and in my mind will always be HIS wall. My side is raw…
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Bird song I will never hear in the wild*
Alagoas foliage-gleaner. Alagoas curassow. Aldabra brush warbler. Aguiguan reed warbler. Alaotra grebe. Amirante turtle-dove. Arabian ostrich. Atitlán…
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