Certificate 18

Adults only

The Dark Woods

My writing class was given the task of writing the opening of a 'penny dreadful' serialised stories very popular in Victorian times. I based mine on...
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14.1 Bedrock

On a television interview, presenter asked Farida Ikhtak, “What really happened to the dancers that day on the ship? Eyewitnesses tell me that they...

13.2 Under the Influence

A brownshirt appeared on Marine Drive and two guys on a whaler approached slowly in the water in front of Jetty 4. “Go and ask them what do they want...

13.1 Under the Influence

“They call me ‘nigger’ because I have a spiralled curly hair,” complained Mannan, “I’m not black! I’m not brown! Look at me! I am much lighter toned...

12.5 Maldive Courage

Faith climbed to the Captain’s Deck before the lights went out. In fact, he was up on the ladder when the deck lights went out. He landed on the boat...

12.4 Maldive Courage

On the Passenger Deck, Level 3, Huda lay in bed in the bright light, platinum blonde hair spread on the white mattress, gold on her chest and Mannan...

12.3 Maldive Courage

It was a special banquet they had at the officers’ mess on Level 2 or the Casino Deck. Farida, Salt, Mannan and Huda sat with the visitors and the...

12.2 Maldive Courage

Muja came with six visitors who arrived from the shore. Necessary introductions made and they sat for tea at the officers’ mess. Muja whispered, “I...
Cherry

Boris Becker

“There’s a horse in my bedroom,” I said. Eric had stolen my heart when I was 17. It turned out that Eric stole pretty much everything he saw, spent...

12.1 Maldive Courage

“We were drifting on an open deck, waves rolling over the brim of the platform pretty much like the boat we went to Thora. Barely floating on the...