My deteriorating eyesight forced me to give up driving twenty years ago. This has made me dependent on my wife and, to a lesser extent, my daughter, should I ever need to leave Pearly Beach, and that is why I could not travel back and forth to cancer...
When it was brought to my attention that November 19, my birthday, has been designated by the United Nations as World Toilet Day, I was mildly offended and thought that they had a bloody cheeck choosing that particular date.
Of course, it is worse when I am acutely anxious or fraught with existentialist depression like the other day when I was at home in my filthy little chamber at the Olympia Residentia.
The Story. A public figure well known for his contemptuous attitude towards black people - let's call him Steve - is abducted and taken deep into a sprawling squatter camp.
I finished writing The Life of Henry Fuckit almost 20 years ago. Two publishers rejected the manuscript, and I was left feeling humiliated and seriously wounded.
I chanced upon this story a long time ago while I was pretending to study for a BA at the University of Cape Town.
This uncle of mine, the one who died of a heart attack on the toilet, once told me a story that really grabbed me and stayed in my memory and sat there festering in my imagination like some parasite trying to make an illegal connection to the synapti...
Around 4 am I awoke with a full bladder. Outside in the back garden it was cooler than I had anticipated and the dewy lawn was cold underfoot.
One evening Frikkie invited Plug over to meet Clarissa. He had given Annetjie the boot, because she had failed to meet expectations, and Zelda had committed suicide. In her farewell note Zelda blamed Frikkie for her death, but refrained from mentioni...
Dedicated members of the Pearly Beach Conservancy have rehabilitated two of the sea-facing benches, of which there are more than a dozen positioned along the shore.
"I've just had an SMS from Takeabody. Listen to this: 'Good day. Collection of your husband's body has been scheduled for no later than 5 pm on Thursday 25 June.'"
