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“A room without books is like a body without a soul” – Marcus Tullius Cicero. Today is World Book and Copyright Day. In honor of this day, I’d like to remind everyone that I have some free short stories available…
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Greetings! Two of my horror micro horror stories have been accepted for publication: “Tight Prose” is a 99-word horror story about a writer who has had enough of their editor. You can read it here on Flash Phantoms’ website. “What…
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My supernatural horror short story , “The Devil Walketh About”, will be published by Hobb’s End Press in their magazine Möbius Blvd on August 1st later this year. I wrote this story in June of 2024 with the intention of…
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My 100-word drabble “Elimination Round” is out now on Dark Moments, an online publication by Black Hare Press. Read it here. I won’t say too much about the mini-story, other than that reality TV isn’t for the faint at heart.…
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I am very excited to announce that my flash horror story, “Sugar and Spite”, is a finalist in Crystal Lake Publishing’s Shallow Waters Flash Fiction Contest this month. The theme is: HEARTS (in honor of Valentine’s Day). A short summary…
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I’ve entered myself into Dark Holme Publishing’s March Microhorror Prompt Contest. The prompt is the picture above. My contest entry is entitled “Halfway Home” – a 499-word horror story with elements of supernatural, liminal, medical and psychological horror. Read it…
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My atmospheric flash horror story “The Mist’s Touch” has been published by Dark Holme Publishing in their monthly e-magazine, Dark Descent: Whispers from Beyond. It is a beautiful magazine that features 14 original flash horror stories, plus a few non-fiction…
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I’ve been spending the last couple of days reorganising my website: I’ve also uploaded all those stories onto the Books2Read platform. From there, you can download them from various platforms. Here’s the ebooks that I currently have available: Mathematically Sound…
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UPDATE (26 March 2025): Mathematically Sound is no longer available on Kindle. You can now download the story for free on my website or via Books2Read. Lost in the labyrinth of numbers, lost in time, lost in space. Somewhere in…
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(Scroll down for the English translation of this post) Ek is bly om aan te kondig dat my Afrikaanse kortverhaal, “Krisjan se Meisies”, gekeur is in PEN Afrikaans en LitNet se kortverhaalkompetisie. Die kompetisie is daarop gemik om die 100-jarige…
Marinda Kotze 