Cost of Courage by Beaven Tapureta
I kept walking on the dark, deserted road. I was with it again, like an incurable mental illness which came with ghastly voices and visions. My eyes hardly blinked; demons played wild soccer in the natural turf of my mind, howling, “Punch him down! Punch him down!” I whispered to myself that I was not going to fall or be punched down by whatever or whoever those demons were. The darkness, like social exclusion’s tinted eyes, looked at me from a precarious viewpoint...
This story has been selected for the StoryTime anthology African Roar, please go to the African Roar site for more info on the anthology.
Cost of Courage was written by Beaven Tapureta.
Copyright Beaven Tapureta 2008.
Beaven is a zestful creative writer, journalist, poet. Beaven was nominated for the NAMA 2009 in the Media Print category, for Budding Writers Association of Zimbabwe (BWAZ) Magazine & Freelancer.
6 comments:
StoryTime is proud to welcome and present, Beaven Tapureta and his debut ST story, Cost of Courage.
Beaven hails from Harare, Zimbabwe, and with Cost of Courage he takes us deep into the current Zimbabwean nightmare. But he does so with grace, humour and above all courage, fearlessly revealing not only the outward chaos, but also its deeper and perhaps more damaging internal echoes.
Brilliant narration!! Not since Marechera have I come across an author that is ready to explore that aspect of Zimbabwe we are all aware of but act as if it isn't there. There are few lines in there that will be quoted by other writers.
However, could you fix the spelling errors?
Good show!!!
Thanks Masimba, amazing this aspect of Zimbabwe tends to be the real story of my country,I mean for me, that's the thing you can never find in the newspapers, brushed underneath, to reappear when invoked by the power of pen, thanks, will be glad to move from here, together
Rich details. I like the character of Brother a lot. The strength of the story is in the details, the experiences in contemporary Zimbabwe.
As a short story, the piece can use a bit of trimming.But if the author keeps it as it is, it leans more towards the novella idea, in which case it would need more sectioning off and further development of the ghetto scenes.
Overall, very informative, a better job than CNN, BBC, and other media.
Brilliant narration!! Not since Marechera have I come across an author that is ready to explore that aspect of Zimbabwe we are all aware of but act as if it isn't there. There are few lines in there that will be quoted by other writers.
However, could you fix the spelling errors?
Good show!!!
Thanks Masimba, amazing this aspect of Zimbabwe tends to be the real story of my country,I mean for me, that's the thing you can never find in the newspapers, brushed underneath, to reappear when invoked by the power of pen, thanks, will be glad to move from here, together
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