STORIES THAT STOP YOU IN YOUR TRACKS

We publish writing by course participants on a regular basis in the spirit of sharing life experiences with others. Each piece is original work by Life Righting Collective course participants – from the pen and from the heart. We want to showcase authentic voices that we hope will inspire you to write your own stories and buy our anthology, This is How It Is, as well as other books by our members. Scroll down to read our stories.

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HAROLD

Sunday afternoons we’d all go over to Harold’s, the kids squirming against me in the back seat while Dad and Moira sat up front trying to act like it was […]

PROLOGUE TO A MEMOIR

This is the prologue for Desiree-Anne Martin’s forthcoming memoir. Words are my drug of choice. They are my refuge; they are my panacea. They are the antidote to the poison […]

THE AUCTION

The dealer from Knysna walked from room to room, silently writing in his little notebook. Finally he said: “R17 000 for everything.” I would probably have taken the offer, having […]

DEPRESSION | I AM A LEAKING BOTTLE

Depression refuses to be a pretty poemIt bullies my lines and stanzasAnd gives my beautiful images the middle fingerIt doesn’t want to be subjected to any reflections or rhymeIt won’t […]

LOKLIED

Ek wou my stad se poorte wyd oopgooi vir jou. Jou bring na my tuin vol lekker ruik kruie. Jou laat drink uit my fontein Vir jou soet wyn en […]

FOUR NOT OUT (YET)

When I am fourI pull the telly overA black and white monsterComes crashing to the floor. 1966The decade in full swingMary Quant the very thingAlong with pick-up sticks. Flashes of […]

A NEW WAY OF DOING THINGS

“We will take the minutes as read,” says the CPF chairperson from his seat, waving two typed pages in the air. A heavy, solid, silence presses against the words. It […]

FROM LARGO TO LARMENIER, CHAPTER 1

“O sole mio sta ‘nfronte a te…” Mario’ s light tenor voice rings out with desperate longing while singing the old Neapolitan song. We are sitting on the front steps […]

A TALL DUTCH MAN, A SHORT STORY

The swimming pool is calm and the water is freezing cold, I know this without even putting a finger in there. Such a beautiful setting really. The swimming pool complex […]

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