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1 min read
Kate's Heart-the back story
Kate's Heart-the beauty of Oregon, the land, the wine, the people
Leigh Barrett
13 min read
Women in the time of Genocide
Magnified, sanctified be thy holy name Vilified, crucified in the human frame A million candles burning for a help that never came You...
Seymour Howe
8 min read
The Final Frame
From the depths of ultimate blackness comes a white flash. Even though my thoughts are new and strangely foreign in meaning, the flash...
Seymour Howe
8 min read
Tickets
Perry knew that there was something special about numbers. From a very early age, he realised that there was nothing on this earth or...
Seymour Howe
14 min read
The Pick-Up
Sometimes, all it takes is a wish for the dream to come true. It wasn’t a new model pick-up. On the money that Sakkie managed to scrape...
Max Bastard
3 min read
A Peasant's Struggle
The use of gas masks is highly symbolic. The gas mask in popular iconography has come to represent both oppression and defiance.
Jack Rice
6 min read
Facing My Nightmares
The exchange was made in front of me. We actually just bought people.
Leigh Barrett
12 min read
The Freedom To Speak... Or Not
The more something is repeated, the more validity it attains in listener’s minds.
Angela Turner
6 min read
Gender Equality in Africa
It would be easy to draw a conclusion that African countries lag behind many western countries in the area of women’s rights.
Leigh Barrett
4 min read
The Horn's Mayday
The very places families send their children to be educated have become target-rich recruitment zones for Al-Shabaab.
Mario Cruz
4 min read
Talibe – Modern Day Slaves in Senegal
What was once a respectable education system has become criminal.
Mandy Tomson
18 min read
Black Lives Should Matter (in USA and SA)
America has only begun to scratch the surface of these problems that have festered for generations.
Leigh Barrett
5 min read
Coming Home
This may be one more leap into the unknown.
Leigh Barrett
6 min read
Decolonising Ballet
We are a country of fragments. Bringing those together as a united, multi-cultural society is a challenge that is still far from concluded.
Leigh Barrett
3 min read
En Pointe to Changing Lives
A window banged but nothing existed except for her dreams and her intense focus.
Silke Heiss
10 min read
Preparing For The Big O
I was born
in a divided city
with swans.
Laura Harris
5 min read
Origins in Oregon
My dad’s family came here because they were running away from the mob and somewhat paradoxically, also running away from the Feds.
Gwen Watkins
1 min read
POEM: Dragons
Dragons must have been in flight in my life,
through gaps in the stars
Ken Barris
6 min read
The Pit Bull Contract
I entered into a contract with the pit bulls with extreme caution.
Silke Heiss
23 min read
Endurance
Sometimes, she was afraid that she might forget. That she might unbind herself quite suddenly
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