By Lawrence Kadzitche My shop is aptly named Osauka Satopa, literally translated as ‘the poor never gets tired’. I’m poor and true to my motto, I work very hard. Everyday I close the shop at six in the evening and as...
Category - English Short Stories
By Lawrence Kadzitche Everyone knows that all women in our township idolize Simeon Thubwa. He’s extoled as a model husband. There’s no family where women do not mention his name as if they’re talking of some...
By Lawrence Kadzitche It was almost noon that November morning. The rain, which had been threatening since morning and was still holding off, had turned the day into a pressure cooker. With the black rain clouds shrouding the...
Man, I’m really pissed off. Who do white folks take us for? Mentally retarded people? Or what? Imagine their cheek; they’ve just organized this meeting where their aim is to cajole me into supporting the legalization of...
It is difficult to understand why women call a young man who sleeps with sugar mummies, Ben 10. The incomprehension comes about because these toy boys have absolutely nothing in common with the heroic cartoon figure. All the...
To marry a Tumbuka By Lawrence Kadzitche The water in the pot was now warm. Mdatha took off the lid, poured some maize flour into the water and kept stirring until it was properly mixed and was about to bubble. She put the...
Rich beyond dreams By Lawrence Kadzitche Luke Kamala was now convinced that everything was conspiring against him. What had started as a cool day was now a blazing furnace. The breeze that had been cooling him had stopped to...
They say marriage is the most wonderful thing in the world. I feel sorry when I see young people rushing into this trap called marriage. Deep down in my heart, I simply say let them go ahead; don’t the wise ones say if a...
They say people find marriage partners anywhere. Some meet their better half at church. Others at parties. Others just bump into each other, say, somewhere. In extreme cases others even meet at funerals. Handsome Johnny did not...