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Dumisan Khumalo

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2020

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Gum trees

Dumisan Khumalo

MIBy Dumisani khumalo* Lost direction is lost wisdom .The smallest thing loosely hung on their minds like a drone.Mary knew Joe was a host to many lies jamming her interests and she knew he now took her for granted while Joe likewise thought she was blocking his views and what he wanted. The last time they had been to the spot was when Christmas was playing to the summer heat and they both had been drowsy in the car ,taking in the warming party heat, to liquor of course. It was also taking them carelessly down to the bott...

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Twinkle toes

Dumisan Khumalo

4.By Dumisani khumalo* Rush hour came and they called his escape a botched one .Who knew he would reappear on the highway with his fast footed legs in front of the armoured car with the money he intended to rob . Such a bold attempt was unheard of ,the prison inmates were locked on television watching the events unravel themselves .Who was the alley cat as smart to take down the governments reserves,leaving a turn table of events that got many people's jobs on the line. It was a curious one as Morris Greens' preying paces up and down and tak...

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Quick decision

Dumisan Khumalo

()5.By Dumisani khumalo"* "We have plenty of time " ,he said.The alert beeps were like a nudging . The operation was to take place in real time and at record split seconds of time. Online ,Dr Mohammad s face was hovering virtually in Dr Moreau's office, the internet connections were well wired as his enthusiasm. Excited about 5G, Dr Moreau had his senses in the air like a cats whiskers. The President of Afghanistan was his patient in need of a new heart.His health failing him after his first crush landing negotiations with the...

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5GsBugEye

Dumisan Khumalo

By Dumisani khumalo "The big blue marble in the galaxy ,spied on by satellite dish and wifi ,that's what's going to happen,and those waves will get into our bones to tear us apart," was Julius' slow drone, wearing his protest t- shirt on the ante on 5-G "You terrible lunatics ,you are like all those people advocating for the conpiracies on corona as well ,sticking the Chinese with the evil titbits and hoping a bat is the culprit ,so was the baboon in Africa, on Aids "Joel said ,spinning his dice and hoping to win in the game of snake an...

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Sugar net

Dumisan Khumalo

Submitted to Contest #104

By Dumisani khumalo Shout out loud causing confusion,broke the peace in the house .That peace came down with his silence..Her investigative demeanour came out on him like a study manual he had found the day he had proposed to her ,and that had captured his strengths and kisses on her tongue.,she w pacified awhile when he did so. He quietly understood her and never argued with her. She talked alone in way she would in the kitchen and at the sitting room,and at times ranting , blabbing, and throwing hands into the air, out at the sam...

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Dirty plunder

Dumisan Khumalo

Submitted to Contest #103

By Dumisani khumalo The rain pitter-patter panning out asphalt bare long trenches ,drenched wet , and dug out craters in the road .The rubber tyres floated up and,down and sideways ,the power of air in them pulling heavy weights of cars ,like demons come up in them ,and brought them out of the road,sending them up high and afloat ,up and down and sideways, with the full water lifting up the air,and pulling them out of the road . The drownings in river s brought victims out naked , water half way to the...

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Time to tell

Dumisan Khumalo

Submitted to Contest #99

Dumisani khumalo Time lapsing put him on the spot like a choir boy ,, and time outside our own rhelm of time,froze all his intentions he had to find a juggernaut to fight his battles at his coming of age . The way love is ,is nubbing ,you can not tell the difference between reality and truth unless you know what times you live in and want. He had matured fast and she too fell into his paces at school ,that everyone found it fascinating they were becoming a couple ,and they stood in awesome watch as if to prove a point to ...

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Dark turn , Black return

Dumisan Khumalo

Submitted to Contest #98

Dark turn ,Black return By Dumisani khumalo His rudimentary radar placed his point home on a narrow path used by donkeys and cattle. It would get there easier and faster. He had dreaded the distance with his trudging walk..A gravel road with red clay soil that marked people of his area to outsiders .The reason they were called changara , the soft iron mineral rich soils laying fallow at this time of the year and clinging to clothes and tainting their skins ,hair,as their homes, a russet red ,as if dusk had arrived at midday. Cattle...

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Grim Fisher women

Dumisan Khumalo

Submitted to Contest #92

Dumisani khumalo Creeps come out at night.Goose bumps in the morning. Drifters in the morning silvery sunlight on Lake Kariba,came up as Peggy spread the net out on the water and Elaine pried out the canoe into it's waters . Peggy and Elaine tossed their feet in the early morning frost,a greyish slumbering spirit making them move back and forth to the water gurgles. Hyacinth green ,sallowing grey algae webs ,clung and caught to them jealously ,making their endeavour by the shore a torrid one as the sun rose...

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The lost library book

Dumisan Khumalo

Submitted to Contest #91

By Dumisani khumalo The interest got lost when he lost the library book The book read like a mystery, capturing all his minds eye ,,thrown to it by it's muse ,and taking him long digesting the hearty revelations .He could not put it down, and by the time he did ,he was reading it once again ,if not looking at it's cover, colours ,and its attractive abstract art, giving it that look that made book lovers tastes judge books by the cover., There came curious eyes from...

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Dust in the cloud

Dumisan Khumalo

Submitted to Contest #90

Dumisani khumalo A people's culture is a people economy .What Silas ate ,where he lived ,and his interest were coming down as his crop failed . Silas hands had brought poverty on it's knees and brought up joy ,love and mercy.They raised poultry ,stock ,grew crops to eat ,trade ,and give out to others when they had more than enough. The hole in the sky had not started by then ,and there was plenty of water for use ,and water had not become an enemy nor had it any enemies . .Land no water to grow something,under the hot African sun. ...

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Cuba bound

Dumisan Khumalo

Submitted to Contest #89

By Dumisani khumalo He was in Cuba at the blink of an eye .The cop that sought for him could not find him ,see him ,nor was he certain of his whereabouts so he could get his own revenge .He saw him ten years later, after buying him a beer at a bar and inquiring if he still remembered him .He said no ,and when he told him who he was ,he disappeared once again . The bags the boys found were in a secluded part of a bush and under a bridge. The one who first saw them claimed there maybe a case of baby dumping and cautio...

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Xhu and Xha

Dumisan Khumalo

Submitted to Contest #69

Write about a family adapting a holiday tradition to take place over a Video chat Xhu and Xha By dumisani khumalo "Their civilisation digs like a bush pig. The beginning is primitive, and the end is martial as a puff adders bite" Xhu said ,"and the end is a noisy civilisation but for Who?" Xha said," and in it, the egos habit tells the lies, like the weevil that we would kill an elephants for such a small stomach that can be filled by termites or crickets in no time" went their conversation as wa...

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Stinky bill

Dumisan Khumalo

Submitted to Contest #69

Write about some one who did not get along with their family as a child but has since found an appreciation for them. Stinky bill By dumisani khumalo A long tale of stories had all animal lovers listening to grandmothers tales for the wise words, wisdom and even grandfathers tales came next to hers whose warrior tales fell short of hers, the grand gatherer of tales,as she was at pains when Stinky bill was around, a bird with teeth they called him, for not seeing any love or endearment in sitting down at night to tune in on lif...

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The circumcision

Dumisan Khumalo

Start your story with someone admitting a secret and end it with someone telling a lie The circumcision By Dumisani khumalo "You can dance in a ring and suppose but the secret lies in the middle and knows" Austin recited words from his deep reasoning to quale the fear that caught him when he saw the crime happen.He admitted to keeping the secret over the meeting of the new initiates who had to be circumcised in the mountains. An old custom,this initiation ceremony prepared young tenage boys for adulthood,and the women made their demand...

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