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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

I am gone. I never was.

My crown of glass Slipped to my shoulder Tumbled to the ground And splintered into Sharp prisms of rainbow lights. In every fragment I saw a hope, a...

Morning Sun

The morning after the night before

Piranha

As soon as you sleep with a man That's it. They loose respect for you. You are no longer magical, Mysterious, challenging. You are a shag. A cunt...

Game On

he's using you and you know he is, but you can't help but stay

Waiting

Waiting I'm waiting for you to say goodbye I'm waiting to let you go I'm waiting until the pain is beyond morphine Beyond making it better Beyond...

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