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I have 128 stories published in 11 collections on the site.
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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

A - When it comes to women...

When it comes to women? All men are bastards. Write this down Pin it up where you can See it every day So that you remember What they do What they...

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Blank. Flat-lining. Used. Alone. Again. Pathetic. These one-night stands? Only they're not one-night stands because this keeps on happening, same man...

X - times new roman kisses

better than nothing

Salt...Pass The Salt

You turn around to tell me Then you remember I am gone I'm where you left me In the past On the sole of your Well-worn shoe You can't scrape me off...

You can't give me what I want

You can't give me what I want And I know that I know that I can never be Anything more to you Than this I am nothing more than this feeling Of...

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