I met Kanna and McGhee in an upstairs bar in Long Street near Green Market Square. Table Mountain was pulling on its misty white tablecloth as we sipped our drinks. This was where we always met to discuss new expeditions.…...
Trina had one wish in the entire Universe and was on a mission to fulfill it.
He had never met anybody who could command an audience like her before. When she walked into the room, it was like she illuminated light. She looked radiant and her smile turned heads. Her confidence captured the attention of all…...
“My sons,” Father Brown instructed. “Today you will run the Crucible: a test of your grit and perseverance. Not all of you will make it. Towards the end of this course, there will be a large stash of jewels. You will…...
During the day, the winter sunlight in the Great Plains is deceptive. Blindingly bright, the white light warms nothing. At night, breath clouds form in front of people’s faces and stars hover barely out of reach. If there’s a…...
The plane has landed and is taxiing to a stop. Along with fellow South African passengers who defy the signs, NO SMOKING, and “FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS, we squeeze into the aisle, grab our hand luggage from the overhead bin, stretch…...
Laying Up Jewels ‘This piece came from grandmother’s wedding dress,’ his mother murmured. Arthur paused, letting his gaze drift outside the window, to a streetscape that seemed forgotten by time, its row of tired single-family homes mutely frozen in…...
I remember...
Sometimes the most treasured jewel isn't something to be worn.
It is still unclear when the feud between the Wiltons and the Dormers began because, to be blunt, that’s how they and their ilk like it. They don’t like clarity. If a man or woman brags about they money they…...
The Pendant Safoora was yet in another oblivion as he entered the kitchen. She was looking into the trees, fiddling with her Chinar leaf pendant, while her Nun Chai sat cold with a thin layer creaming at the top. Adam…...
When is a Jewel not a Jewel, but something else?