My book Complete Stories is available on Amazon, free on Kindle, Barnes & Noble Online and Takealot

“A sacred dream occurs. Two shadows stand opposite one another – female shadows that are descendants of the god of death. They morph into the light winds at the hour of 3:48 and sometimes they hiss – like baby pythons and sometimes like spitting cobras waiting patiently for their prey. Drenched in thirst. Drenched in greed and hunger. There is a need for conversation to take place, conversation about who they are, their names or perhaps where they came from. They are nameless as dead inland taipans decomposing below the blazing sun. If the death god could be compared to any known object the shadows would be the best comparison. My sudden interest in shadows came shortly after realizing that my body is not behaving the way it is supposed to behave. It rebels against the head even though the head has the tendency of contorting on its own”

Link below:

Complete Stories: Unathi Ndlelantle Ngada: 9781086585759: Amazon.com: Books

A South Afri(K)an Psycho

“I killed the boy because I was afraid that the man was going to be born. The quickest way to kill someone: the Michael Meyers way, the Thomas Hewitt way. I had to delete him. The box cutter. I calmly stabbed him in the larynx and sang a lullaby in his ear as I held his head on my chest. The muscles around his larynx were collapsing as my fingertips were held against the bloodied skin on his neck. There’s a lot of calamity as I describe this very moment. I am in control and as I recall the moment in such detail the words are not difficult to put on paper.

The most fascinating thing that I can recall are those muscles collapsing. I was as calm as a bumblebee. The creatures in my mind were still playing on their merry-go-round. I’m beginning to think there is a see-saw somewhere. Some fucking where…

The snake and leopard don’t mate in the hours of the full moon and in winter. But all the same, they hunt for their prey.” - A South Afri(K)an Psycho ♥️

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A South Afri(K)an Psycho

The post-apocalyptic mind decays and the dead crows sing.

“I remember slitting her tender wrist nicely…blood playing a little game of drip drop while those happy tears drank themselves to sleep. I remember watching over my little shadow self - dull looking, sad looking, bony and petite looking little migraine chanting in her own little sea of shadows. Despair, Despair, Despair. Happy despair.”

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“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.

In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.” - Tahereh Mafi, 

“While many things are too strange to be believed nothing is too strange to have happened.” Thomas Hardy - http://www.peteressexbooks.com/the-dream-stealer/

Specific Traits

~Hair~

Hair color is fun to describe but it’s not very telling or unique. Two, three, or four characters in your book might have blonde hair. You could easily describe them as having different shades like yellow-blond, white-blonde, and dark blonde. But you can be far more effective if you describe hair characteristics.

Here’s what I mean:

Style- do they wear their hair in a bun, ponytail, or long and wild down their back? Do they straighten it or curl it?

Texture- is it thin and wispy or heavy strands that curl under at the ends? Is it glossy in the light or coarse and dull?

Smell- you can get away with this one as long as you don’t overuse it. For instance, does your character shower with coconut shampoo or wear hair mist from Bath and Body Works?

Use the examples above to broaden your description of hair.

Example:

Kandace’s glossy blonde hair smelled like honeysuckles, reminding me of summer.

Inner Thought:

▪️gives reader a deeper insight into your characters’ personalityandmotivations

▪️reveals characters’ true feelings

▪️moves story forward

▪️increases plot conflict

Read this example:

“You know you’re basically just keeping the

kids out of the way, right?” The chief’s tone

was calm, but his eyes were wary.

Avery stiffened.

“Yeah,” she said through a mouthful of fried

egg. “I know.”

He chucked her shoulder. “Don’t be like

that. When you’re of age, you can show off

your detective skills. Until then, we do things

by the book.”

Avery looked away.

Vs.

“You know you’re basically just keeping the

kids out of the way, right?” The chief’s tone

was calm, but his eyes were wary.

Avery stiffened. She had been on more miss-

ing-person searches—unofficially, as she was

underage—than most of the officers on her

father’s staff. But being sixteen kept her on

“kid patrol,” basically babysitting while the

adult volunteers tromped through the forest,

potentially ruining scads of evidence while

pretending they were a bunch of television

CSIS, no doubt.

“Yeah,” she said through a mouthful of fried

egg. “I know.”

He chucked her shoulder. “Don’t be like

that. When you’re of age, you can show off

your detective skills. Until then, we do things

by the book.”

Avery looked away, thinking about her

mother, about how she would zing the chief in

the ribs and remind him not to be so serious.

“By the book,” she would mock in a terrible

baritone. “I’m the big, bad chief.”

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