Author: Coin Macy

  • How many drafts for my fiction writing?

    We came up with a foolproof three draft step to writing fiction; he whole process takes time, but you will notice the results in the quality of your manuscript if you put in the effort.

  • Finish Your Collapse & Stay for Breakfast

    Finish Your Collapse & Stay for Breakfast

    Friend: Just talk to her, I mean you slept together. Him:  Not like that. Friend:  OK, so you shared a bed together, talking to her shouldn’t be such a big deal. I’m still surprised that nothing happened! Him:  There’s a time and place. Friend:  Oh shit! She coming towards you, I’m out. Him:  Erm, I’d…

  • Blackberryphilia (2010)… pt.3

    Blackberryphilia (2010)… pt.3

    previously… Me: Hey [beep]: (chewing) Hey. Me: Eh, it’s Coin. I’m so effing stressed. Calisto’s dead, like remember in Jennifer’s Body where Chip said his mum was catatonic like a  zombie-mannequin-robot statue? Like that dead and what’s weird is that when he does come round, this really disturbing icon that’s not even in the manual shows. [beep]: (chewing) uh… Effing [beep]! Why’s…

  • Blackberryphilia (2010)… pt. 2

    Blackberryphilia (2010)… pt. 2

    catch up here Manual, manual, manual! Where are you? Ooh, The Diaries of Jane Somers – been looking for you, must read ’em again. Doris Lessing was too advanced! Geez, it’s cold! It wouldn’t be if… yeah! Oh wow, thought I returned that, oh well! Okay, why am I here? Oh, the manual! Ouch! Stupid thumbtacks. The box,…

  • Blackberryphilia (2010)… pt. 1

    Blackberryphilia (2010)… pt. 1

      It was only after thirty seconds that I realised I may have lost Calisto for good. I don’t know why this came to mind because the darn device took a good twenty-one and a half minutes for it to reboot; but in those thirty seconds as I held the power button down, I remembered…

  • This Perfect Day | pt. two

    I’m awoken by the static on a radio coupled with the bellowing of a car engine that sounds like it’s pulling something heavy. Outside, it’s dark, awkwardly so. The clouds are thick and eerily low that I hunch, slightly, just to feel safe. It’s raining softly and there are a couple of search lights peering…

  • This Perfect Day | pt. one

    This Perfect Day | pt. one

    I find myself walking in the covered parking of a mall towards a popular department store. It is hot. I know this because my feet and fingers are swollen and throbbing. I deliberate which city I am in until I see the parking pay station and rates. I am in Bloemfontein. As I meander  the…

  • Destitute Illusions

    Destitute Illusions

    Him: Are you hungry? Her: No, I had something to eat. So go ahead, I’ll just have a smoke. Him: Should you be smoking after what happened? Her: No, but I’ve been doing so anyway. This is funny. Him: What is? Her:  This whole situation, you know… Him: No I don’t, tell me. Her: This…