A Maiden’s Lament. (Reviewing Carey Mulligan’s performance of ‘Let No Man Steal Your Thyme’ in film adaptation of Far From the Madding Crowd).
Of Bars and Bounty Hunters
There is only one other way one can step into the shoes of a biological scientist without having to read a single word off of a biology textbook or spend years trying to find out why there still isn’t an easier way to pronounce scientific words like paracetamol or Mitochondria. For years now, mere writers have managed to crack the age-old secret to artificial reproduction with just the simple use of a ball-point pen, sheet of some lined paper and some unbridled, never-before-seen characterization. Rhodes University student and creator of fictional character ‘Jazrazor’ Daniel Soverall knows the secret, and he is about to let us in on it.
‘Lessons on Living’. (A response to Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays With Morrie)
Dear Morrie
I find it necessary to tell you that the first word of this letter was written on a Tuesday evening. This was not done with the intention of encroaching upon traditions originally yours and Mitch’s, but as means to figuratively pencil myself into the attendance register of your class on ‘The meaning to life’.
Rekindling the Fire: Thirteen Years Later. (A response to Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Road’)
Dear Boy
I have never before seen the phantoms that loom through a stranger’s mind before first learning their actual name.
My Letter to Nam (A response to Danielle Steel’s ‘Message from Nam’.)
Dear Paxton Andrews
Pardon the informality of the words I intend to express in this letter. You see, you and I are not the same.
Learning the Art of Letter Writing
Right when I thought the internet could not get any more convenient, blog ‘The Pen Company’’s ‘Letter writing’ column offers letter-related ‘how-to’ entries that could help improve letter-writing skills.
Why I Write
There is this old photograph by Jürgen Schadeberg hanging on a wall of one of the rooms at the Rhodes University Africa Media Matrix building. Read more
‘A Sense of an Ending’
Somewhere on the sandy plains of El Mirage; California, off-road vehicles carried rapper 2 Pac and fellow desert dwellers all the way across a post-apocalyptic wasteland in hit music video ‘California Love’. Read more
Pocket Envelope 