winking_tiger

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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

v - Some Text Missing

*some text missing*

z - The Telephone Rang Just Twice

The telephone rang just twice before the receiver was lifted, but nothing was said at the other end. He knew she was listening, waiting for his...

v - moment

Moment There he was Ever the same As before But changed Because I am no longer A part of him And he is different Clean-shaven for once And slimmer...

Moped

I interviewed him in the pub on a Saturday night at the end of September. I wrote the answers on the back of a Tesco receipt using a pen that I'd...

Catching Ants

I stood on the path in the garden, my heels resting on the edge of the lawn. At one end of the path was a pineapple bush, with as yet, no pineapples...

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