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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
Killing Kind
He says he's gonna kill her
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- 812 reads
dent in my mattress
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">And so he didn't love you style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> But he still lives in your head style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"...
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- 736 reads
Just Dust
Leaving today you have not won Your prize sits writing goodbye And as a consolation you tell yourself You are free And that it's over And if that's...
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- 718 reads
Gaps
This inbred urban family Spreads its late night feelings Too easily Scatters seeds Of lust On fields Of open longing And waters them With desperate tears What grows between the Gaps
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- 749 reads