Short Stories Archives - Consciousness.co.za Magazine

Love is a two letter word : ME

Nana Akosua Hanson — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 18:52:28 +0000

She stared at his fat face without emotion as she slid up and down his penis. He licked his fat lips in pleasure, not daring to take his heavily lidded eyes off her expanding crotch. His face became more and more twisted in a frenzied passion as he neared his climax. She hated his cum [...]

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A Woman Zimbabwe Raped

Philani A Nyoni — Sun, 30 Aug 2015 01:57:37 +0000

When she stepped into the omnibus she reeked of dejection, the stench was more repugnant than the decades pilled upon her, darker than the aura of disappointment that she had to show for the culmination of all her life. All her years, all the lives she had birthed with the African hope of redemption in [...]

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My Experience with motherhood

Lorrencia Nkrumah — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 19:15:05 +0000

Me: ”Baby can you please get me some ”eburo na nkatse” ? Kwame: sure why not Sweet After 10 minutes, I call again”Can you please add yogurt and some pork chops? Kwame: Ei sweet, what kind of combination is that? Me: (getting upset)…..just bring it! This was my life few months prior to the birth [...]

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The Belly Diaries – The Crazies We Meet

Lithakazi Mhaga — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 14:17:30 +0000

Belly and I had a pretty interesting day yesterday. To clarify matters, Belly is the name I gave my huge gut when I was in primary school… (It was means to cu the bullying short and keep the fat jokes at bay.) Anyhow, Belly and I were minding our own business, walking up Parliament Street in [...]

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The double-dealing douche of doom

Bomi Njoloza — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 16:08:38 +0000

My grandmother died shortly after I had learnt, from the best teacher, that hearts could be broken. My first love had hopped on with bits of me to a lover he would later deny, in the manner of all men who have yet to learn that they, too, deserve love. She had lived for over [...]

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Farewell Taxi

Guest — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 11:32:03 +0000

by Candice Morrow I’ve always thought that taxis were for the ride, some funny, others bad and downright taxing but all with one thing in common, Point B. The destination is the whole point of taking a taxi. My experiences have been transactional to be honest and I could make a mental collage of [...]

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The Fragility Of Faith

Bomi Njoloza — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 07:45:54 +0000

Cecilia is my ex-lover’s mother. She stays in a well kept old age home on 11th Avenue, looked after by a recovering cocaine addict, Kyla, who finds droplets of awkward humor and truck loads of irritation in the stories Cecilia tells of her glory days. This Kyla, Cecilia notes, misses her own miracles because she [...]

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THE TAXI CHRONICLES SERIES – A taxi home

Guest — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:26:49 +0000

by Candice Morrow Often I wonder about what Umlungu is, it’s a small wonder to me and I learn everyday. As I near the taxi, door wide open and everyone going about their business pretending not to notice me, I could feel their stares and see the knowing glances exchanged between the vendors by [...]

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The intoxicating nature of unreality

Bomi Njoloza — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:15:18 +0000

There is a strange comfort in the weirdness of dreams. The kind that gives one courage, at dawn, to host impromptu concerts under showerheads and, in front of mirrors, boast of one’s chest, belly, smile, mole or parts better kept a secret. It is an exciting nakedness, this weirdness of dreams… and boy do we [...]

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THE TAXI CHRONICLES SERIES – The 21st century pestilence

Bomi Njoloza — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:36:50 +0000

Somewhere in the half-alive city centre that awakens only to the lazy breeze of the Indian Ocean just down the road, in an outlandish alley (dubbed taxi rank) behind a supermarket I have never fantasized about shopping in, I find a Quantum – the modern day E20 – that will soon leave for Gonubie. After [...]

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