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  1. Sean J Halford
    The Cape Town Herald EVENING EDITION March 27th, 200– NATIONAL —page 8 White Lion Depressed CAPE TOWN—Jonathan the white lion, who caused a sensation last year when he escaped from the Peninsula Zoo, appears to be depressed. Staff at the zoo say the young male, one of the zoo’s star attractions, has not been eating for several days and has retreated into the artificial cave in the zoo’s big cat enclosure. Jonathan is one of three white lion cubs born in captivity three y
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    Scripture tells us that on the third day, God separated land from sea. We were anything but separated on this morning. It was nearly ten when we stirred and disentangled ourselves from each other. The smell of bacon frying wafted up from downstairs. ‘Shit,’ I exclaimed, still thick with sleep as I glanced at my watch on the nightstand. The air was cool against my skin as I sat up: I was buck-naked. ‘Morning, sexy,’ said Chris, stretching. He reached down and scratched his balls.
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    LOL. “Geyser” just means hot water heater here but I can understand why your mind might have gone elsewhere. Thanks for reading.
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    Anybody who has done high school physics knows Newton’s Third Law. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You push against a wall; it pushes back against you. There is poetry hidden in the laws that underpin the universal fabric, and so we search for meaning ever hungrier, even with desperation. The symmetry in the equations freaks us out—for all we know, there is just us on this lonely little marble in the inky void. We want union with something, even if the opposite see
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    Galaxies

    Sean J Halford commented on Sean J Halford's story chapter in Galaxies

    I'm pretty proud of that one. It just came to me in a flash; I think I typed that paragraph on my phone with one hand at work. I usually squirm when reading through my earlier stuff, worrying that it's too on the nose. So hearing from readers that there are bits that still work means a lot to me.
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    Galaxies

    Sean J Halford commented on Sean J Halford's story chapter in Galaxies

    I think I need you to compile a list of these dictionary outings since I was an English tutor way back as an undergrad and this makes me so happy to hear. Though I wonder if I'm being a little too purple with my prose sometimes. Glad you like Chris's music; maybe I should make a Spotify playlist at the end...
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    The Coup

    Sean J Halford commented on Sean J Halford's story chapter in The Coup

    I'm pretty proud of that one, to be honest.
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    I guess it's a case of "if it's not broken, don't fix it?" It's not like the Dutch disappeared from Southern Africa, they just slowly became a new people (even if they caused a lot of damage to others doing so). I myself am the product of an English-speaking father and an Afrikaans (Dutch) speaking mother, so I am a bit of a cultural chameleon.
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    The Coup

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    The Coup

    Sean J Halford commented on Sean J Halford's story chapter in The Coup

    Aw, thank you. And I agree … sometimes the uncomplicated stuff is the best.
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    The Coup

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    The next thing it was much brighter in the room and Chris was standing over me with a mug of coffee in his hand. ‘Wakey wakey!’ he half-sang, putting down the coffee on the nightstand. I yawned and rubbed my eyes. ‘Hey.’ For a moment I thought I’d been dreaming about him spooning me, until I saw he was still wearing his baby blue boxers. Had he woken up and realised? I sipped the coffee, wincing at how sweet it was. ‘When did you get up?’ He flopped down on the
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    Galaxies

    Sean J Halford commented on Sean J Halford's story chapter in Galaxies

    I'm glad I'm ratcheting up the tension for you. As Alfred Hitchchock said, "torture the audience as much as possible" Guess you'll just have to wait until the next chapter!
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    As it turned out, that little voice was going to get its wish at least partly fulfilled. Chris said yes instantly. Rob would only be able to come up a day later, as he was going with his family to Arniston to visit his grandparents. Bella, in turn, decided the weekend would be the perfect opportunity to nurture her “tragically repressed inner poet”. As she’d already invited herself along to Arniston with Rob, she would tag along with him to the mountain cottage on the way back. ‘Two
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    Appreciate this feedback very much, especially to hear that I made you laugh!
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    Dave may or may not be drawn from a couple of badly behaved guys who dated family members of close friends... they say write what you know!
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    My combined Celtic and Afrikaner sensibilities stepped in almost immediately. Right now, there were more important things to worry about than silly crushes. With a tide of homework, swimming training, and piano pieces to memorise, there was no time to devote to my trademark bouts of existential agonising. I’d had crushes before and they weren't a big deal. There was Zinzi in Grade 6, the first person I kissed (or rather, she pinned me against a wall and stuck a bubblegum-coated tongu
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    Hahaha. I will confess to having my own "Page 77" moment aged around 16 or 17 and being thoroughly confused. They say all first novels are autobiographical, after all...
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    Amadoda

    Sean J Halford commented on Sean J Halford's story chapter in Amadoda

    That's high praise, thank you so much!
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    I wouldn't be too concerned. The title (and chapter titles) are more a reflection of Caleb's religious background and how he has to navigate encountering parts of himself that contradict each other even though his open-minded. I specifically wanted to avoid the "extremely religious kid comes out gay and is rejected" storyline and focus more on internal development. And I'll confess, I have a love of intertextuality and tend to scatter a few literary allusions across whatever I write, often without thinking.
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    Thank you, and thank you for taking the time to comment!
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    I wouldn't be too concerned. The title (and chapter titles) are more a reflection of Caleb's religious background and how he has to navigate encountering parts of himself that contradict each other even though his open-minded. I specifically wanted to avoid the "extremely religious kid comes out gay and is rejected" storyline and focus more on internal development.
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    Chris’s house was in Constantia, that beautiful, expensive valley of mountain vistas, city vineyards and Botoxed housewives sipping Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc on rotation. We drove up to the wrought-iron gates of a large Cape Georgian and I whistled. ‘Jeez, dude. Your place is huge.’ He looked a little uncomfortable. ‘It’s called an expensive divorce settlement. Mom kind of took my dad to the cleaners.’ He pulled up next to a gleaming smoke-grey Mercedes, and I changed th
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