by hidayat | Aug 7, 2021 | Blog Post
Reviewer: SHIREEN JAFTHA I most definitely enjoyed the novel. Once I got started, I could not put the book down. I immediately fell in love with the hunter, Belac, but at the same time I was curious as to why he had to find the elf, Lathlin. My favourite characters...
by hidayat | Aug 4, 2021 | Short Stories
Mark learned about his terminal illness on a day that seemed made for vibrant life, not the Pale Horseman. When his oncologist told him in a tone of great sorrow that his brain tumour was inoperable, and that he would have only two months to live, the ray of sun...
by hidayat | Jul 30, 2021 | Short Stories
They talk about me as if I cannot hear or see them. I may be quiet, reticent and inwardly-focused, but I am normal – at least, to myself I feel normal. The doctors say I am an autistic child suffering from Asperger’s Syndrome, and I am helpless to ask them not to...
by hidayat | Jul 30, 2021 | Short Stories
He feared the decision, yet he knew he had no other option. “Either decide now,” he told himself, “or you should never have come to this stage in the first place.” The wind tugged hard at his flapping cloak. He was only peripherally aware of it, barely registering...
by hidayat | Jul 24, 2021 | Blog Post
I wrote my first story in October 2002 when I was teaching in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The story was a response to the claim of an American colleague, Eric Ennis, who believed that Americans are the best writers, and that South Africans can’t write very well. Granted,...