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Quotes from Water: New Short Fiction from Africa, Short Story Day Africa — Cat Hellisen

born 1977 South Africa

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I breathed in the smoke from my final cigarette. It tasted like acceptance of growing up.

Water: New Short Fiction from Africa, Short Story Day Africa (2016)

Let me tell you for nothing it was a great relief to find all my toes in the right order and with the right amount of skin and bone. You miss them fierce when you don’t have them.

Water: New Short Fiction from Africa, Short Story Day Africa (2016)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Cat Hellisen (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.