The Orange Barn by Sarudzai Mubvakure

“Why didn’t you tell me that I had a son?”

Tom was staring at Eliza with blood shot eyes. He painfully surveyed her beauty from a distance as he waited for her response. Neither of them was distracted by the rain drops that were falling on the roof of the old barn that held so many of their precious memories. Eliza looked at him, no longer with the eyes of adoration that once held Tom in high regard. Instead, they carried the weight of years of pain, years of waiting and years of disappointment.

This story has been selected for the StoryTime anthology African Roar 2011, please go to the African Roar site for more info.

The Orange Barn was written by Sarudzai Mubvakure.

Copyright Sarudzai Mubvakure 2009.

Sarudzai was born in Islington but then at the age of ten moved to Zimbabwe to live with her parents and siblings.

She studied Occupational Therapy at the University of Zimbabwe and then returned to London in 1998 to work.

Her interests are creative writing, music and abstract art. "A Disappointing Truth" is her début novel.