No matter what precautions were taken, socks disappeared into a Bermuda Triangle for socks, a swirling vortex that swallowed one sock at a time, leaving its partner stranded.
It was true, of course, there was an abnormal level of narcissism in our society, but it did not do, he told himself, to spend too much time going on about it. Society changed. Narcissism was about lo...
It was always the best way of finding out information; just go and ask a woman who keeps her eyes and ears open and who likes to talk. It always worked. It was no use asking men; they simply were not...
If people came at you and started to scratch you, then of course you had the right to sit on them. Even Nelson Mandela, she told herself, who was a good and gentle man, would have agreed with that.
How could a very thin woman do all the things that women needed to do: to carry children on their backs, to pound maize into flour out at the lands or the cattle post, to cart around the things of the...
He had only recently learned the word dramaturge and had been looking for opportunities to use it. He had eventually summoned up the courage to try it on Big Lou, but her espresso machine had hissed a...
And it was not surprising, perhaps, that he should feel it—this little boy who felt things so deeply; for we all feel that about our friends; we all feel that about those around whom we might put an a...
And if things go on as they are, in a few months the men will have cut all the trees down and that will be the end of the bubblegum tree - forever'.Nobody said anything. Billy thought that he had neve...
They are dazzled by all the money that they are being offered. That is what money does, Mma Ramotswe—you must have seen that. Sometime we need to look the other way when people put money in front of o...
Yet she was determined that when she married she would not forget who she was and who her people were. She would not affect any airs.
We act out our lives to a soundtrack, thought Isabel, the music that becomes, for a spell, out favourite and is listened to again and again until it stands for the time itself. But that was about all...
There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.
The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved; that is such a miracle, they feel; such a miracle.
Special things have a way of surviving.
So the small things came into their own: small acts of helping others, if one could; small ways of making one's own life better: acts of love, acts of tea, acts of laughter. Clever people might laugh...
Remember the Hottentots? asked James. They've become the Khoi now, which means that the Germans will have to retire that wonderful word of theirs, Hottentotenpotentatenstantenattentater, which means,...
Psychology, she thought; that is what they called it these days, but in her view it was something much older than that. It was woman’s knowledge, that was what it was; knowledge of how men behaved and...
Portraiture has its risks, and I suppose a dissident Free Presbyterian fatwa is one of them.
My old friend, he began, is down below, his face we’ll see no more, for what he thought was H2O was H2SO4
If she was going to remain an engaged lady, then she would make the most of it, and one of the ways to do this would be to enjoy her free time.