THE PROSELYTE OF OPHIR

From A KENYAN URBAN NARRATIVE Tue Mar 4 2008, 11:06:12

For a struggling writer, this blogger is too lazy. Picture this: The editor of a insanely exciting South African journal asks, 'Potash can you send us a couple of random words?'

'Yea, easy like,' says P, The.

Two months post-deadline, Potash, The, in one of those ubiquitous moments of deliriums tremens, pens some inchoate junk but passes out at a point sub- 700 words.

Here it is...

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