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Caledonia stretched along the prow of the Ghost as the ship sliced through black water. At night...
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 SALZBURG, AUSTRIA
1759
MOZART BY THE OCEAN
Sometimes, a day comes along that seems possessed by a certain shade...
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 CHAPTER ONE
It’s midnight, it’s sweltering, and I might be high on painkillers, but that guy – that...
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 WHAT IS B2B MARKETING?
Business-to-business or B2B marketing is sometimes referred to as industrial or trade marketing...
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‘I cannot talk to them now, I have exhausted that debate.’
– Lonmin counsel Advocate Schalk...
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 Nazma was in denial about several things, one of which was that working at the kiosk was going to become her full-time...
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“’n Lasbrief is uitgereik vir die inhegtenisneming van erekonsul Hans-Joachim Kramer, tot onlangs van die...
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 VISITATION
Severine was collecting one of her many prescriptions from Clicks, the supermarket-type pharmacy in the...
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 2012
Her phone is croaking again. Iris eyes it warily. She’d thought that a frog sound would be soothing, but the...
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On 29 October 1970 in Boksburg to the east of Johannesburg, South Africa, I was born and not left to die but to make...
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 Hoofstuk Een
Boas Mei is verward – en dis amptelik. ’n Verpleegstertjie het so pas ’n etiket om sy...
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 A book is a book is a book?
Imagine my joy the day my publisher shared the news that the precursor to this book, Where...
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 Jack Everson buttoned up his thirty-year-old suit jacket and slowly made his way up to the front of the church....
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One year ago . . .
22 November
Hello, World!
I've decided to start a blog....
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Is today a good day to die?
This is something I ask myself in the morning when I wake up. In third...
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“The only thing that moves here in Ndlalidlindoda is time. Everything else is stagnant,” Priest says...
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 At Brian’s insistence, she didn’t go back to Derry and Toms.
‘I have to give two weeks’ notice...
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 One day during his first year at school, when he was still fourteen, he fell while running and broke his...
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The call came through just after two. He was at his desk at the police station, having his lunch of vetkoek and mince...
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Money printing: the big picture
Money from Heaven will be the path to Hell. – Robert Wiedemer,...
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