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Ladies and gents, my first novel. It is what it is. — Update: I Love You, We Said is live on Amazon as well as Medium. Today, on my eldest sister’s birthday, another firstborn entered the cold light of day amid the Human collective of genetic wildcards. I’m talking about my first novel in a twisted, anthropomorphic way. And here it is…

Novel

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You can’t unsee it.
You can’t unsee it.
Novel

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Mar 18

What Freedom First Felt Like

It’s easy to take democracy and racial integration for granted, but in South Africa in 1995 we weren’t that jaded. — * A repost of a 2021 story, when no-one knew me or read my stories Just the other day I ran into Setle again. Same old Setle, same job, same company. …

South Africa

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What Freedom First Felt Like
What Freedom First Felt Like
South Africa

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Mar 16

Forgetting

Man awakens, and on seeing God divines the Jesus prayer of wonder and concord and stilled by a sombreness of mind, inadequacy and awe, sees something of the machinery of everything, the myriad eye and fractal mind making things just so. The bee is out, look, there’s another, the day after the worst month in the shortest latter-day memory, presumed dead…

Poetry

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Forgetting
Forgetting
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·Mar 11

I Put My Book Through The Page 69 Test

Why couldn’t it have been page 68? — A Medium challenge In a recent article book critic Janice Harayda revealed some of the curious hacks employed by busy ‘book editors’ (I think she means newspaper critics) to get through the large piles of books sent to them weekly by publishers. …

Writing

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I Put My Book Through The Page 69 Test
I Put My Book Through The Page 69 Test
Writing

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Mar 6

Earth Men In 4 Parts

Angry men, the remaining ones, who never bested their fathers, were never allowed to win, and still in thrall of him, beat down the dreams…

Poetry

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Earth Men In 4 Parts
Earth Men In 4 Parts
Poetry

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Feb 25

I

Then,  when enough have agreed, and in doing so made it so, when there is no longer any silence or clamour to welcome one, when all words…

Poetry

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I
I
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Feb 19

Belladonna

Soldier raised to hate the invaders, defending king and country and god against the heathen, finally in bloody battle, spared by the godless despot, which is how I came to serve the tyrant of war. A man leading rebels against a corrupt king kidnaps his daughter to save his persecuted…

Poetry

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Belladonna
Belladonna
Poetry

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·Feb 13

Chapter 45 — The Painfully Obviously Godly Panoply

A serialised novel — Author’s note: This is the final chapter of my novel, I Love You, We Said. Thanks to everyone who read it and found something of beauty or value. < Ch 44 < ALL CHAPTERS The black woman, a chef, stares out on Long Street, leaning, arms folded, on a flashing…

I Love You We Said

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Chapter 45 — The Painfully Obviously Godly Panoply
Chapter 45 — The Painfully Obviously Godly Panoply
I Love You We Said

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Published in The Pro Files

·Feb 12

Not To Be

The pain in the arse of dying trying in the suck-it platform economy — I published my autobiographical novel, I Love You, We Said, in April 2022. Took me 20 years. To earn the privilege I had to fight for every slice of writing time — measured in minutes, not hours, and sandwiched in-between 10-hour working days, the occasional night-time baby shift, and fights…

The Pro Files

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Not To Be
Not To Be
The Pro Files

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Published in The Pro Files

·Feb 8

Chapter 44 — Unbecoming

A serialised novel — Author’s note: This is the penultimate chapter of my novel, I Love You, We Said — a fictionalised account of my life through childhood, young adulthood and early married life, in which I try to show something of the struggle of artists to come to terms with work, love and…

I Love You We Said

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Chapter 44 — Unbecoming
Chapter 44 — Unbecoming
I Love You We Said

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Ben Human

Ben Human

718 Followers

Poetry, stories, essays, novel. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09XZXLM7H

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