Bafana Charles Peters

Wriggle

By Jade Campbell There is a section for each animal. Labels in all-caps announce what they have become: cows recast as beef, etc. Creatures transformed into something different, necessarily less creaturely. The shelves bow under the weight....

Cake

By Jade Campbell I did not know him but I liked the way he could make himself cry. I felt I knew him when he did, and that he knew me too. He played the role of a wronged husband. At a small table in the dim light, the woman pretending to be his wife admitted to...

An Act of Vengeance

By Rosemund J. Handler ‘Pauline! The kitchen’s a catastrophe!’ That big word is one of Madam’s favourites, Pauline thinks sourly. Everything is a ‘catastrophe’ to Madam. She tells her friends on the telephone all the time how bad the whole world is to her and how good...