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Ezekiel Mphahlele

The International Symposium on the Short Story, Part Three

Autumn/ September 1969

South Africa

By Ezekiel Mphahlele

I can never say exactly why I began writing short stories twenty years ago; why, for instance, I did not try the novel first. Perhaps one’s natural bent has something […]

Fiction

Autumn 1962

He and the Cat

By Ezekiel Mphahlele

Take it to a lawyer. That’s what my friend told me to do. Now, I had never had occasion to have anything to do with lawyers. Mention of lawyers always […]