Debut novel by Pinky Manganyi

I have not written anything here in a while and for the first time, I have the best reason. I have finally published my first book titled 9:11 and it has been satisfying to see it come to life. The process was trickier than anticipated, but nothing beats the feeling of holding your first book …

LOST

I’m lost, Walking on a road paved by lust. I thought this life could be mine, it was a dream. I fitted in, blended, and completed the wrong pieces like a neat seam. But in the early hours, my heart whispered the truth that lust got me lost.

DEADLY SOLITUDE

A short story Half the time I am trying to suppress a scream, my pillow knows. I’m blinking away tears not worth shedding, they sting. I want to love living, perhaps for those rare moments of unexpected ecstasy. I don’t exactly know how I got here, all I know is a lot of things or …

IN-BETWEEN

A short story I'm in a queue, there are too many blank faces before and behind me, I think they feel the way I do. Lost. Where am I? I am naked, but for some reason, I am not bothered by my nakedness, maybe because everyone is naked, nakedness in my mind is as normal …

We’ve been on masks

2021 Mental health awareness We just hate to be realized; we’ve been on masks before it became a thing we couldn’t hide. We’ve been living through pandemics that rather kill slow and are more deadly than the pronounced ones. Remember that friend that committed suicide, the one you thought, ‘she was happy, what happened?’ it …

Jesus is not a fairytale

If you have watched or read anything written by two or more writers, you will testify that voices can differ but the story flows without any contradicting descriptions of one character. In other words, there is never any sort of paradoxes because collaborative writing is a planned process, writers agree on the plot and flow …

Basics

 We discover,  name  and  own  things  which  we  were  given  the  intelligence  to  discover  and  name  by the only  one  who  can  explain the very  basis  of intelligence  itself. Truth is;  we  only  know  what he offers  our  intelligence.  Our  minds  can  only  go  a  limited  distance.  There  are  deeper  truths  and meanings  beyond  our …

FIGHT IT WITHOUT TAKING A PUNCH

Step into the shoes of an unknown stranger, A stranger who has suffered enough abuse than reported. Touch their wounds. Experience the pain they bare from within, The pain of loving a total stranger, One who proved how cruel the world could get. A total stranger who became a part of their lives, Only but …

SUIT UP FOR YOUR WORLD, NOT THE WORLD

The people who really see us are the people in our world, not the people in the world, but we tend to rather suit up for the world that hardly sees us instead of suiting up for the people in our world who appreciate and take pride in us when we look good. Suiting up …

GOD

Father, friend, faithful, He is in all his forms A father to the fatherless A friend to those who befriend him And faithful in all his commitments Never once has he failed to deliver And all on time   Love, lover, loved Unconditionally he loved the world with all its imperfections Gave his to save …