Ak Dawson: 2 books

This is a story collection. All are of five words. Why five words, you ask? Well, six is conquered territory. Four is far too short. Five, you’ll find, is perfect. Each one is a snapshot. (That’s like all stories, really. Beginnings result from deliberate decisions. Happily ever after is illusion.) You’re...

The year is 1988.Eighteen-year-old Thomas Green, weed smoker and would-be artist, has been plucked from his comfortable, suburban existence in apartheid South Africa and thrown onto the frontline of his country’s war against what it sees as terrorism.As a conscript in the South African...