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I have 128 stories published in 11 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 71085 times and 48 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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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

Drunken Love

Drunken love is the purest form of love, in my opinion It’s the love that remains long after Your ability to think straight So instead your thinking...
Cherry

Things I have done since he left

Things I have done since he left: retched cried peeled off my remaining nail polish poured a glass of water (but not drunk it) read each of his 4...

Remnants

She faded away into the mists of time misremembered misplaced a memory of having been But what was it? a life bent out of shape buckled at the...
Gold cherry
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Anecdote

I think the worst thing is that I shall become an anecdote a small story of no real significance shared with his new lover over breakfast or in the...
Gold cherry

Last Night

A numb feeling comes over me As he shouts in my face

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