Posted in true stories on October 7th, 2008 No Comments »
We went for a long, slow bicycle ride, my dad and I.
On December 21st nineteen-sometime-ago.
We stopped at the ‘Wilds’, a wonderful park in Houghton, Johannesburg, for a sip of water and a little break.
We sat on the grass alongside a goldfish fishpond and talked about creativity.
About how important it is to express those effervescent [...]
Posted in short stories on October 1st, 2008 No Comments »
MY SIDE OF THE STORY:
I met Ashleigh outside a motel in Hooksett, New Hampshire. I was coming back from the Cannon Mountain ski resort and she was on her way to a college up north.
I had only been in the United States for two months and was experiencing my first ‘œreal’ [...]
Posted in short stories on September 22nd, 2008 1 Comment »
2am. The street was empty. It had just rained. Steam rose quietly from the subway grating. Purple and green neon reflected intermittently on the wet black pavement.
I could have sworn that I heard a wailing saxophone in the distance. But that could have been [...]
Posted in commentary on September 20th, 2008 2 Comments »
Today is the birth of my new online portfolio. It was created and customised by my good friend Lynsey Gedye — he also shot the header photos at our favorite location, yes, in Hawaii. These pages are going to be an extension of my creative journal. A site where I plan to share fiction, [...]