My stories have appeared in Mslexia, Panorama, African Voices, Ariel Chart, Steel Jackdaw, After Dinner Conversation and more. There’s a stretch of time between some of these publications, but those years weren’t empty; they became the compost for the stories I write now.
Still Here
Published in 2026 spring issue of Persimmon Magazine
Still Here follows Kate, a woman in her sixties, as she moves through a period where nothing dramatic seems to happen and yet everything is quietly shifting. A brief affair, a health scare, and her husband’s minor stroke bring into focus the distance that has grown between them and the uneasy question of what it means to stay. The story looks at ageing, intimacy, and the small, often unspoken adjustments that keep a life going.
Soul Mate
Published in After Dinner Conversation, 2025
Speculative Fiction
SoulMate was nominated for the 2025 Pushcart Prize and began with Michael Safi’s Black Box episode “Repocalypse Now,” whose unsettling dive into AI lovers and risk-free intimacy lodged itself in my mind. From there, I fell into a warren of digital yearning, outsourced emotions, and the strange new terrain where even a minor algorithmic tweak can redirect desire, recode intimacy, or quietly rewrite the terms of a relationship.
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SoulMate blends tech-fable with psychological realism; a story about longing, digital intimacy, and the quiet ease with which we surrender ourselves to the machines that promise never to abandon us.
Lessons from a Small Piece of Land
Published in Ariel Chart magazine in 2025
Nature writing / place-based reflection,
Lessons from a Small Piece of Land is about moving from Johannesburg to a semi-rural patch of land that was never meant to be a reinvention, but became one. A few unassuming hectares taught us things no city ever could.
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Feeling Sound
Literary fiction shortlisted for the Bridport Short Story Prize 2025
Feeling Sound is a story about the fierce, complicated love that binds a rural Irish family during wartime, and the boy who must navigate a world he cannot hear but feels with every nerve in his body. Feeling Sound is ultimately a tale of resilience — a boy learning to interpret a world that refuses to interpret him.
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Biowitch
Published in Steel Jackdaw, 2024
Speculative Fiction · Eco-Dystopia
In BioWitch, a brilliant geneticist looks back on the choices that shattered her family and reshaped the planet. What begins as hopeful bioengineering-disease-resistant pets, empathetic dolphins, intelligent birds-unravels into a global reckoning when the modified animals turn their new awareness against the species that harmed them.
The Song of the Crane
Published in African Voices, 2024
Eco-Mythic Fiction · South Africa
The Song of the Crane follows Amahle, a young girl raised in a drought-stricken Karoo where silence has replaced rivers and even hope feels brittle. Gifted with an ability to hear what others cannot, she becomes an unexpected bridge between a dying landscape and the people who have forgotten how to listen.
FishKids
Published by Panorama, 2024, Issue 12: Cities.
Speculative Fiction
Fishkids traces how climate, surveillance, and fear reshape the places we call home — and how young people invent their own mythologies when the sanctioned ones collapse. It’s a tale of borders dissolving, of movement through forbidden spaces, and of that moment when an ordinary life tilts, quietly but irrevocably, into the uncanny.
For Rany
Published by Momaya Annual Review 2006
Literary Fiction
For Rany follows a young couple navigating the intimate terrain of illness.
Tears and Rain
Published by Mslexia, 2004
Literary Fiction
Tears and Rain, originally published in Mslexia, is the first story I ever published, and still the one closest to my heart. It follows a young girl who leaves her drought-stricken home for England, only to discover that not all rain is welcome and not all new beginnings are easy.