A brown dachshund and sleuth before I moved along to the great kennel in the sky, I shared many years with Rebecca, my soul mate. A dishy dashy with a bod to die for, I kept a weather eye out for her. I’m OK with her digging into my diaries. I’m sure she’ll do a [...]
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Revenge is a dish best served cold.
A short story by Michael Fisher, Nelspruit. “Molly was not what one would call abnormal, but was equally not the run of the mill eighty-year-old widow. She had lived in Greenwood Cottage for over thirty years, ever since her husband Ainsley died of chronic pneumonia, during the long cold winter of ’78. Although she was [...]
Headstones, golf and the lure of Old Brown Sherry
Caspar Pietersen woke up with snow on his face and a raging thirst. He tried to sit up but his back was broken. His arms still worked, though, and he raised his hands to his face. His gnarled fingers stuck out of the holes in his fingerless gloves. He scrunched up his eyes and pulled [...]
Parrots
“Hi Pen”, they chorused as she walked into their drawing room. She loved visiting her twin aunts, Meg and Peg; they were madly eccentric. They had never married; far too independent and progressive for their multifarious lovers. Meg had stood for parliament while she was at Oxford university, but lost her deposit, and, it was [...]
Father Babbage
In this seventh visit to Ystervarkrivier, an out-of-town priest gets more than he bargained for. It was a Saturday afternoon in late June and Beulah de Bruyn was anointing the lectern of St Jude’s church with a large feather duster. Her daughter, Marietje, was sweeping out the vestry and Noluthando Tshabalala was applying Mr Muscle [...]
Ystervarkrivier country club
Harry Corkaby, the architect, owner and proprietor of Ystervarkrivier Country Club, was curled into a ball on the sofa, whence he had fallen asleep watching live golf being beamed into his living room from some obscure part of the planet. The television was silent now, not because Harry had turned it off, but because Eskom [...]
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