2 parts
HIS WIFE AT HOME
Zakes Mdluli · 8 min
5.0
A late client call, a locked glass office and an assistant who asks exactly the wrong question: should she stop?
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Serialised South African romance
Romance stories with heat
Illustrated love stories set in the South Africa you actually live in — written by South Africans, new ones every week.
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Harties, Umhlanga, a booking that turns out to have one bed.
The boss, the assistant, and the floor everyone else has gone home from.
A ring on his finger and a reason she keeps coming back anyway.
A stranger, no names, and a morning that refuses to leave it there.
Months, not minutes. The ones that make you wait, and are worth the waiting.
The one who got away, a public stage, and a conversation both of them have rehearsed for half a lifetime.
He owns the building, the club or the charter flight. She is the one thing he cannot simply buy.
A dead phone on a gravel road, a killer who asks for you by name. Desire with something genuinely at stake.
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5 parts
SAY THE WORD
Zakes Mdluli · 2 hr 33 min
4.8
She plans her meals two weeks ahead and sorts her socks by day of the week. Tonight she is going to do exactly one reckless thing, and it is going to take five weeks to find out what she started.
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3 parts
WATCH ME
Zakes Mdluli · 26 min
5.0
Months of talk, one black dress, no panties — and a collar. Their first night at the club changes everything about their marriage.
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46 parts
MINA NAWE
Zakes Mdluli · 8 hr
4.6
Two years divorced, and Naledi still opens the restaurant with him every morning. Nobody ever told her how to stop wanting a man she was the one to walk away from.
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2 parts
THE VIEWING
Zakes Mdluli · 21 min
5.0
Lungile needed a cheap flat near campus. The after-hours agent has a perfect one — private, quiet, and a trap.
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12 parts
UBUYILE
Zakes Mdluli · 1 hr 36 min
4.5
He is the correspondent the country trusts with the worst news; she is the face it wakes up to every morning. Between them they have a stage, a big screen, a few hundred students and nowhere private left to finish a twenty-year-old conversation.
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Every story carries a rating from one chilli to five, so you always know what you are opening before you open it.
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- Steamy
- A love scene or two, written for feeling
- Hot
- Several explicit scenes, plainly written
- Scorching
- Frequent, fully explicit, adventurous
- Filthy
- Explicit throughout — the taboo is the point
Who writes these
Not scraped, not translated, not written somewhere else and moved here. South African writers, writing the country they live in.
Readers, in their own words
I'm not a reader shame 😅 I haven't finished a book since school. But I've done three of these this week alone
— Busiswa S.
Ntsiki you are cruel 😭 I have to wake up at 6 tomorrow and I'm still here.
— Priscilla M.
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