Author: Marinda Kotze
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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…
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I am very excited to announce that my tech noir short story “An Underground Operation” is available to read for free in the January 2025 issue of the electronic magazine World of Myth. Find the January 2025 issue of World…
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I am super excited that my flash story “Mathematically Sound” was selected as a finalist in Crystal Lake Publishing’s Shallow Waters Flash Fiction Contest! The theme for the month is “Liminal Spaces”. I love liminal spaces (both for their horror…
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The complete 2024 collection of the Black Hare Press’s Dark Moments online archive and PATREON-exclusive stories is now available for purchase. The book is 487 pages long and features several hundred flash horror stories of 100 words each, including my…
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As 2024 draws to a close, I decided that it would be fitting to write up a quick summary of what I’ve achieved this year and what I’m looking forward to in the coming year. In a nutshell, my 2024…
