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I have 128 stories published in
11 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 78935 times
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Emma du Toit
I have been regularly writing poetry for the last twenty years. My work explores the grief of having to fit in when you don't belong. I am interested in minute interactions, the magic of the everyday, peripheries and otherness. In 2023, I completed an MA in Creative Writing which has helped me to get better at submitting writing rather than hoarding it shamefully in a folder on my laptop.
My stories
Emptiness
It is hard to explain Until you find yourself driving home to an empty house, No kiss to greet you on arrival, to sit you down with tea. No one to chat to while cooking dinner,
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Knickers
Six years later After the frantic fervour of lust After the shared washing basket After the sleepless nights of newborn bliss Six years later
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Random poem of abandonment
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways Well, thing is I don’t. Put your fingers and toes away and sit back down. He is eating the dinner I have cooked at the table I have cleaned.
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Strange Things
I am desperate for the love he cannot feel A hand on his, soft lips to the stubble along his jawbone, skin to skin... The conversations and the easy laughter of soulmates
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Broken
He was sitting on his own when I arrived, at the back of the TV room in a green velvet armchair, biting the insides of his lips together.
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