From New York to Johannesburg, Cape Town to the Tsitsikamma, the past, present, and near future, the stories in The Lucky Ones champion love, kindness and connection against all odds.

A young man and his husband move home to South Africa to start a family, but lies, violence and trauma endanger their new beginning. The more he tries to fix things, the worse they seem to get.

Three queer friends face the unravelling of their world due to climate collapse. Can they hold on to their humanity, and each other, as the city around them descends into violence?

Flow (2023)

He tells her she can call him Trevor. “Like the comedian,” he says, which she seems to find very funny. It’s partially a joke – he knows he comes…

New Contrast (#198 2022)

Three leaves emerge from damp soil. Green bright as Spring, as magic. This is an enormous forest, larger than nations, but nations are yet…

Everyday Journal (2021)

She only says it once. Sings it, really. A soft, lilting melody in her voice. They think she must be saying something else – humming lyrics…

Brittle Paper (2020)

The first thing Andile did when he discovered the grey pube was pour himself a whiskey. The second thing he did was call Litha.

Commonwealth Writers (2020)

In spite of everything, the heat is relentless. I move slowly to limit the flow of sweat. I may be walking for hours and some dehydration…

Kabaka Magazine (2019)

I chose to be gay on a warm, winter afternoon in 1996. It was late June or early July, long after the January cutoff date for making…

New Contrast (Winter 2019)

Jeremy slammed the car door. Ignition off, windows up. His skin came alive in a thousand tiny pinpricks and soon…

Queer Africa: Selected Stories (2018)

Nothing. For about the tenth time in as many minutes, Nick leaned back into the couch, yanked his phone out…

Penny Magazine (2017), The Other (2018)

Nombulelo watches the darkness. Hours pass before insipid winter sunlight sneaks in between the sheet-metal walls…

The Kalahari Review (2018)

“Why don’t South Africans read fiction?” Greg says. He presses his fists into his eyes and groans theatrically so Thapelo knows he is…

New Contrast (Summer 2018)

Julia leaves in February. She packs up her room in the old house with the Oregon pine floors and the pressed ceilings. She sells her desk on the internet.

Queer Africa II (2017)

Nothing. For about the tenth time in as many minutes, Nick leaned back into the couch, yanked his phone out…