Raymond Sigimet Keith Jackson & Friends: PNG Attitude, 18 August 2022 “I heard footsteps brushing against the grass and crackling the dry leaves. I looked up and was surprised to see a pretty young woman, all Afro and earrings” FLASH FICTION – This is my story of Penny, someone I met unexpectedly. On a Wednesday. OurContinue reading “Meeting Penny”
Category Archives: Tok-piksa (Fiction)
Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2023
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Short-story for International Literacy Day
A trip to the river BY ISSABELLE VILAU ‘Hurry up, come on lets go!’I heard my big brother Angna, screaming on top of his lungs ordering, everyone to get of of the house. ‘Were coming’ my cousins and I responded, as we all ran out the house, with our bag of clothes and a bilumContinue reading “Short-story for International Literacy Day”
SHORT-STORY: Whistles from another world
BY MATHISAH TURI Don’t whistle at night, they say, for you never know who might respond. Especially at night when darkness rules and silence is at it’s greatest. Ten year old Irai had not learned of this superstition. But she knew of the existence of the world beyond ours, where no humans dwell. She sawContinue reading “SHORT-STORY: Whistles from another world”
Hearts, fine food and revolution
By DANIEL KUMBON – PNG Attitude FICTION – The Old Man said he would drop Delisa at the hospital and get her at a quarter to twelve to go for lunch at Ribito Grill and Restaurant. “You’ll meet the remarkable young man who saved my life,” he said. “I wouldn’t be alive today if itContinue reading “Hearts, fine food and revolution”