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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

Enough

I love him, but is it enough? I am heaving him back from the darkness against his will He wants to be down here In the blackness Unfeeling Alone My...

Dark Days

Down the stairs and into the kitchen A black bear appears suddenly, making coffee in my kitchen Using my blue travel mug with the broken lid I can’t...

And so

And so he held your hand for five minutes At least he held you And so he made you feel like a princess For a while At least you know that royal feeling And so he held your gaze

First dip

A warm and gentle breeze blows up from the water. A woman arrives with a baby, pink and plump, wearing a mop cap and giggles. The edge of the sea becomes somewhere phenomenal.

The One

You are the dent Still to be made in my mattress The hand I will hold Until my skin grows old Yours is the smile I will keep in mind Whenever the day is hard I will see only your eyes

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