winking_tiger
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I have 128 stories published in
11 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 71498 times
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Emma du Toit
I have been regularly writing poetry for the last twenty years. My work explores the grief of having to fit in when you don't belong. I am interested in minute interactions, the magic of the everyday, peripheries and otherness. In 2023, I completed an MA in Creative Writing which has helped me to get better at submitting writing rather than hoarding it shamefully in a folder on my laptop.
My stories
Closing the Wound
I ripped my soul To show you Where my heart is I tore deep Clawed flesh Pulled wiry strings From within Seams that can’t be sown Carefully together I...
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I Can’t
I can’t Do this to myself again I can’t be that girl The 6 week girl The ‘this’ll do fo now’ girl Pain upon pain I’m fine No honestly, it was just a...
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- 198 reads
Swipe
Have you ever matched with someone on Tinder and it turns out to be the super-hot dad of one of the children in your class? And on parents evening he...
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Don’t Forget
Don’t forget She’s just a girl Beneath the woman facade Behind the things she says To deflect you from noticing She is frightened and unsure Those...
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- 145 reads
Somewhere
Beyond the wasted years I claw back time Bundles of hours Crumpled into fists Enveloped by wrinkled fingers Salted with agony I scrape a burial mound...
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