willemien de villiers

Music and Silence

The music Fay is listening to cloaks the scene in front of her with profound meaning. The sugarbird – seconds…

a very long short story

from Vintage Printable The driver waiting at OR Tambo International turns out to be a policeman on stress leave. A…

gathering stones

collection of stones in my dining room used as inspiration I have taken a side road away from my usual…

women’s day bystander

 The bystander’s gaze  Anonymous Works: Circa 1920’s-1930’s Optician’s Neon Trade Sign. I dream of a favourite painting of mine melting…

the pitchfork and the axe

Shaker Brook Farm – Items for Sale. The post box is brim-full; a stack of letters, two TIME magazines, brochures and…

“Be silent, or say something better than silence.” ~ Pythagoras

Today I will say very little – only a flash fiction contribution to 3WordWednesday. (Not necessarily better than silence, but…

speaking ill of the dead

  Elemental Transformation. “Just leave it alone,” Neill, Mia’s oldest brother, says. He grinds his cigarette butt into the ashtray….

below the surface

And now P is telling her that Avena Sativa will definitely help her to get to sleep – says that she’s been “a little naughty…

mucking through the compost

E and I are speeding away in a car – our old VW Kombi, last seen 25 years ago –…

the foldaway girl

One night, Bea dreams that she enters a shop, and buys a shiny capsule for her daughters; a gift to…

last word on zuma’s genitalia

I want to post this sane, excellently written article here, instead of my own musings on the matter. Really, really could not…

Waking up to the nightmare

E and I are inside a flat I’ve never seen, but we seem to have been renting it for many…