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Dumisan Khumalo

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2020

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The circumcision

Dumisan Khumalo

Start your story with someone admitting a secret and end it with someone telling a lie  The circumcision By Dumisani khumalo "You can dance in a ring and suppose but the secret lies in the middle and knows" Austin recited words from his deep reasoning to quale the fear that caught him when he saw the crime happen.He admitted to keeping the secret over the meeting of the new initiates who had to be circumcised in the mountains. An old custom,this initiation ceremony prepared young tenage boys for adulthood,and the women made their demand...

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Twos robbery

Dumisan Khumalo

Submitted to Contest #68

Start your story with someone robbing a bank and end it with two people driving on an interstate. Twos robbery By Dumisani khumalo All for the money and money on the roller of the double barrel shot gun came out of his overcoat. The Security was not lookung at the door, sanitizers and masks confounding him as the guy on his CCTV could not make out who is who. The door Security looking at the overcoat entrant who came in wearing a hoody, mask, was as everyone maintaining the new normal. Everyone maintained social distance and looked like...

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Rabid warewolf

Dumisan Khumalo

Submitted to Contest #65

Write about a vampire or warewolf who moves into a quiet suburban neighbourhood Rabid warewolf By Dumisani khumalo Howling and bowling, in the night ,was as eerie,it woke up most residents .A light there got lit and a curse came down there in condemnation,along the boulevard. The dog distemper was up and quick ,and everyone was thinking of inoculating their pets. The rabies was on the wind. Luther was looking at the moon ,trying to relate fact from fiction.The full moon had something to do with these kinds of occurrences ,it came a...

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Cursing cross

Dumisan Khumalo

Submitted to Contest #64

Write about someone whose been sent to boarding school Cursing cross By Dumisani khumalo Cursing jokes or cursing cross, took Thelma to school on a sacred secret .To do the truth as she was told and listen to the real world of the Bible. However, she did not know the school bus would land her with a contrary domination,and different doctrine. Being a girl guide and one to live by the word of God commanded ,even when she heard those snide jokes about different churches and different folks in her formative religious li...

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The fireguard

Dumisan Khumalo

Submitted to Contest #63

Start. your story with the line " By the time I stepped outside,the leaves were on fire"  The Fireguard By Dumisani khumalo By the time I was outside ,the leaves were on fire. There was panic and frenzy ,and it was about me, and the prospects I had were becoming dim as I looked at the fire spread so magnanimously, and who would come to my rescue when I was there alone? It started with prospects of finding out if I had green fingers at all ,with my extension trainings in agriculture,and my green beans grown in a can...

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Coffee drops

Dumisan Khumalo

Submitted to Contest #61

Write about a character who smells something familiar and is instantly taken back to the first moment they smelled it. COFFEE DROPS By Dumisani khumalo Caramel brown nuts ground and boiled in the pitcher in the staff room at ten bells tea time break ,had the class prefect Lawrence ringing the bell in a thirty minute niche. The ringing loud timber of a cow bell beat up some fear, shaffling feet fast to the classroom door. Caught out ,you stayed out ,or received some capital punishment. That is the cane , a duster on th...

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