Kambangane was driving a blue bonnet Bedford with yellow doors. The miser was returning from an auction where he sold three cows. However, he munched on rotted offal and drank sour milk for padkos. Along the way, the penny pincher’s tummy rumbled, and he removed his foot from the accelerator pedal. Soon, a runny stool...
The boys refused to ride donkeys after Kambangane bragged about racing them on a rabbit’s back. Afterwards, the ageless chief scolded his laughable tales when a toddler choked, while Kambangane tickled him about skinning a python. Apparently, the Joker scooped chicken eggs from the snake’s belly. Now the sun dipped behind the mountains, while the...
Kambangane was patrolling the golden grass when his beady eyes followed some strange tyre-like marks on the ground. The tracks were so deep into the red Kalahari sand, and he rubbed the spiking hair on his arms. He had seen a goat-swallowing snake, but had never came across a snake that could chalk the powdery...
Johanna pushed the gun-waving man blocking the tinted glass door and squeezed herself inside. Then she skipped everyone in the queue. “I want a six-month statement,” she huffed, throwing her driver’s card towards the teller. The pencil-thin-nosed teller raised her eyebrow-like eyebrows and punched her name on the keyboard. “You have a spending problem,” the...
Charmaine was searching for a soulmate a muscular man perfectly made to match her sponge-soft skin and become her romantic kin she was hunting for love or a buddy to share a belly laugh as her perfume scented the air and her suitors worshipped her shiny hair while her skin puffed a smell of roses...
First, Kouzera whacked the horsewhip on the sandy rocks and then whistled the redheaded doelings into the kraal. Immediately, the kids raced towards the ‘maa’ and ‘baa’ goats and suckled the swollen nipples. Outside the kraal, twisted-horn bucklings head-butted each other. This time, the thumb-sucking man mumbled warnings that were snitched to him by a...
Rino was born under a sunburned tree. Seconds later, the shadows journeyed under the trees, and a single-horn rhino showed up at the borehole. As a tot, he hunted grey pigeons with catapults, while nana tickled his upward-pointed nose. On his fourth birthday, he strangled a day-old calf suckling his cotton nappy. Later, Rino was...
Tjijetuombaze pressed the knob of the window, and waved his palm through the buffeting wind. Then he changed into gear seven, while his greenish-yellow eyes scanned a carpet of grass next to the road. Somehow, he flashed the oncoming trucks shaking his car as they snail passed by. Soon, he pressed his golden eyes at...
Tom was driving uphill when he spotted a storybook on the charcoal-black road. First, the grass-flogging wind flicked the book’s pages, and he skimmed through the looped letters, as the tyres rolled over it. Secondly, he glanced at the rear mirror and scanned the title, ‘Diary of a Magician. “Do you believe in ghosts?” asked...
Andreas pressed the pedal, as the oil-leaking engine pulled the Datsun up Dune 13. Suddenly, the car jerked and the tyres punctured into powdery sand. The driver swung the wire-hooked door, and his boots crushed an orange-headed lizard. Then, he buried a dipstick into the engine, and shook his head left and right. Later, his...