Water: New Short Fiction from Africa

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Overview:

Title: Water: New Short Fiction from Africa
Author: Nick Mulgrew, Karina Szczurek
Year: 2016
ISBN-10: 9781780263083
Publisher: Short Story Day Africa
Price: $15.95
Pages: 272
Binding: Trade Paperback
Type: Anthology
Title Reference: Mother's Love
Notes:
- Date of publication from publisher's website; other data from Amazon
- Only stories thought to have speculative elements based on summaries and reviews are indexed here. The others are as follows (unless otherwise noted, summaries are from Worldreader):
  - 21 • Efemia Chela • The Lake Retba Murder (Le meurtre au Lac Rose) • The corpse of a local woman is found floating in the picturesque, pink-coloured Lake Retba. It becomes one detective's job to find the murderer. Is it the work of a local gang or someone more close to the detective?
  - 31 • Alexis Teyie • Mama Boi • "As a result of Baba Boi's negligence, Boi drowns in a large basin of water. While Baba Boi and his friends aid their mourning with roast meat and beer, Mama Boi clings to the memory of her only son. Her anguish triggers her mental illness." - Tolu Akinwole
  - 57 • Siyanda Mohutsiwa • And Then We Disappeared Into Some Guy's Car • A university student navigates alcoholism and sugar daddies.
  - 71 • Fred Khumalo • Water No Get Enemy • In a dirty Johannesburg tavern, a middle-aged man tells of the struggles, betrayal and brutality of Angolan liberation camps.
  - 97 • Wairimu Muriithi • Love Like Blue • A young woman comes to terms with her mentally-committed mother, who wants to escape her troubled life by swimming across the ocean.
  - 111 • Thabo Jijana • Native Mayonnaise • After wetting an ex-lover's couch, one man is counselled by his friend about how to get out of trouble with the township police.
  - 125 • Mark Mngomezulu • Urgency • Realising he desperately needs the toilet in the middle of a long-haul taxi ride from Swaziland to South Africa, a man is thrown back into traumatic episodes stemming from his childhood bed-wetting habits.
  - 147 • Donald Molosi • Beetroot Salad • Waking up in a new city in the USA, Monkoki seeks comfort in Kitsano, knowing fully well that her life will never be the same again.
  - 157 • Wesley Macheso • This Land Is Mine • Sitting in a relief camp, a brother mourns the loss of his home in a flood and the loss of the sister who abandoned him.
  - 193 • Florence Onyango • Nyar Nam (Daughter of the Lake) • Atis waits every day for her father to appear again in the fishing village. Is this the day he returns?
  - 203 • Louis Ogbere • Were • The Atis are forced to re-examine their lives and their marriage when a madwoman shows up at their front door.
  - 244 • Megan Ross • Traces • Today is the day a young bride from East London decides she has had enough of her abusive husband and his lies.
  - 251 • Mary Okon Ononokpono • Inyang • "The tale trails a girl's venture into a thick forest in pursuit of a boy who snatches her bracelet. Lost in the forest, she has a nightmare in which her father plays a prominent role in the transportation of slaves across the sea, the current of which threatens to wash over her." -- Tolu Akinwole