I just turned 26 and July is always a dicey month for me and a plethora of emotions. This is usually the month when I do stock take of the current year and compare it to my vision board from…
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Thembelihle Terry-Lynne Zulu
Felt so weird waking up on my birthday and he wasn’t standing by our bedroom door. Dad wasn’t a morning person but on birthdays he’d be up before the sun. Never used to make a big deal about my birthday…
“Tragedy brings people together,” and that’s fine in the movies but what they didn’t tell you is how long they stay together thereafter. I don’t know what it is about grief that compels people to make promises they can’t deliver….
Since no one was willing to hire me I decided to just go out there and create my own employment (the Government must be so proud) and become a publicist. I had dabbled a little in the Zimbabwean entertainment industry…
Standing in the queue at a fast food outlet, I felt the worst pain ever in my abdomen. The room started spinning, sweat ran from all my pores and with that, it all went dark. I came to, with the…
She didn’t understand it. She wrestled with it. She lay awake many nights and read the ceiling grappling with it. She didn’t know why, but I do. You weren’t enough, not then, not now. And you knew this. You saw…
I’m gonna keep writing about how I got stolen from until I stop hurting about it. The lyrics that keep running through my mind are from Coldplay’s Fix you, “When you lose something you can’t replace.” I always thought there…
My bags got stolen from a well known supermarket (name withheld til a logical conclusion is reached.) The matter could not be reported at the closest police station because its always closed. Its a common case of the will they,…
Turns out we live in a world where weaves are a life goal. I don’t know if its the country bumpkin in me or the poverty spirit but I just have not been attracted to that type of lifestyle. I…
The night before I left for Harare, my sisters and I brought the mattresses together and decided to stay up all night. In all the commotion, an MP3 player got misplaced. In the quest to find it, accusations were being…
