“Hurrah!  Hurrah!  We won!  Thanks to Zara’s winning shot into the net, right on the final whistle!” x                           x                           x                           x Zara was an attractive and appealing young girl with a sweet elfin shaped face.  Her copper coloured hair which flowed down her back was her crowning glory. As a child she suffered the tall […]

Bang! Splut! Splut! Ssplllut! The car engine died.  A cloud of black smoke plumed through the air. Dry and dusty was this desert road.  Dust and sand everywhere.  It was in their hair, their eyes, their nostrils.  The blazing heat beamed down relentlessly. How could this have happened?  He couldn’t understand it.  He had his […]

Screeching of rubber tyres on bitumen road pervaded the quiet evening air. The crunch of metal against metal, then scraping, crashing, glass shattering. Loud, hysterical, blood curdling squeals sent shivers down Tamika’s spine. She had heard it all before, but this time she knew it was serious. Tamika lived on a corner block adjacent to […]

She stood upon the precipice, gazing out over a vast expanse of wide sweeping plains.  The sheer beauty of green forests and the rivers meandering in the distance completely took her breath away. Laraine sat there thinking and dreaming about the happy days and the sweet memories of when she was a teenager.  She was […]

Lenore jumped out of bed.  Excitement ran through her veins.  Saturday, her special time, this was the day she went busking. Dressing carefully in her cream cheese cloth top, a long colourful skirt, with brown leather sandals and a bright head scarf, she was ready for the day and eager to play. Racing down the […]