🩰 My story "Threadbare" is featured today in Ratbag Lit!! Yay!! 🩰 #ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine ratbaglit.substack.com/p/threadbare

Today's story is "Threadbare" by ML Strijdom. #ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #micro #micros ratbaglit.substack.com/p/threadbare

Such a cool POV and lovely writing in this one @ratbaglit.bsky.social @mlstrijdom.bsky.social

My most favorite historical fiction story is out now in @sundialmagazine.bsky.social !! Please go have a look! Has stunning artwork too! 🥳🥳 its based on true events from 1901 Kimberley Club, South Africa. 🥳🥳 #historicalfiction sites.google.com/view/sundial...

"I hadn’t heard from the Boers in a while, but the Lords at the Kimberley Club weren’t worried. They said Kimberley was surrounded." Read "Burning Crowns", a new #shortstory set in #southafrica by @mlstrijdom.bsky.social. With original #art by Scott Tierney. sites.google.com/view/sundial...

My literary piece has just been published with Tiger Moth Review! “Broken Spirals”. 🤩 #tigermothreview Go read it here: static1.squarespace.com/static/5d235...

Made the Top 128 out of 410 stories in @writingbattle.bsky.social ! 🥳🥳

Made it to final showdown of @writingbattle.bsky.social 2K contest with my Vampire Romance story! Yay!! 🥳🥳🥳 #writingbattle #shortstory #indieauthor

My Crime Short Story “Falling Souffles” was just published at Short-story.me ! Yay! Go enjoy a cozy crime read! #shortstory #crime #indieauthor #fun #cozycrime short-story.me/stories/crim...

Made it to top 16 out of 571 stories in the Fear Pro Writing Battle Contest!! Genre: Horror! Look at us go! Yay!! 🥳🥳 @writingbattle.bsky.social #writingbattle #indieauthor #shortstory #writingcommunity #fantasywriter #writingcontest #writingcommunity #flashfiction

My first ever real publication in a lit mag! You can find my fictional short story inside. Thank you @livinapress.bsky.social A dream came true! #publishedauthor #indieauthor #shortstory #fantasystory

Made it to the top 128 out of 571ish stories in the Horror Genre for Fear Battle in Writting Battle!! So excited! Lets gooo!!! #writingbattle #top128 #indieauthor #shortstorywriter

My story: “Cycle 14” Scifi is live on Alphanumeric: Zoetic Press! Audio version! 🥰🥰🎤🎧🔈 www.zoeticpress.com/an-07-femme-...

My first ever hard copy Lit Mag in my hands! Thank you Livina Press for making that dream cone true with a story that’s so close to my heart: “Of Feathers and Faun” 🥳🥳 #livinapress #indieauthor #litmag #publishedauthor #debutpub #writingcommunity #shortstory #AmWriting #InPrint #fantasywriting

Made the Long List for the @historythroughfiction contest 2025! www.historythroughfiction.com/short-story-... #writingcommunity #writing #historywriter #indiewriter #amwri̇ti̇ng #amwritingfiction #writingcommunity #writersofinstagram #emergingwriters #shortstorywriter #historicalwriting

My thriller: ‘This is Living’ just dropped on Flash Phantoms!! 🛥️. #AmWriting #IndieLit #SmallPress #LitMag #LitFic #FlashFiction #FlashPhantoms #Thriller www.flashphantoms.net/september-fl...

My cozy fantasy: ‘The Glow of Starwhiskers’ has found a loving home WITH stunning illustrations 🥹🌸🩷🥰 Thank you Starspun Lit! You guys are amazing 🥳 www.starspunlit.org/issues/summe...

Leopard at night, Lower Zambezi, Zambia. #leopard #cats #zambia #lowerzambezi #wildlifephotography #sony #safari #africa

My story: A Golden Moment was just released on Westword! Go read it here! 🌟✨💫🌟 westword.substack.com/p/a-golden-m...

Elephants in the Lower Zambezi, Zambia #elephants #wildlife #safari #photography #africa #zambia #wildlifephotography

Wilddogs of the Lower Zambezi, Zambia #wilddogs #sony #sonya6500 #zambia #wildlife #wildlifephotography #safari #lowerzambezi

Leopard mom and her cub caught peeping out from their hideout, Lower Zambezi, Zambia 🐆 #leopards #sony #lowerzambezi #zambia #bigcats #nature #wildlifephotography

Table Mountain from Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, South Africa #capetown #bloubergstrand #sony #sonya6500 #zeisslens

Baboon posing in the morning sun, Lower Zambezi, Zambia

Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, South Africa 🏄🌊

My story: ‘Where the Veil Thins’ is featured in the August Volume 5 Issue 2 2025 Go read it here! 🍜🍝 instantnoodleslitmag.com/where-the-ve...

Hippos in the Lower Zambezi, Zambia 🦛

My story: ‘Of Feathers and Faun’ just published in a real physical literary magazine! Thank you Livina Press! You can buy it here: www.amazon.com/Livina-Press...

Herd of Elephants in the Sabi Sands, South Africa, July 2025

My post apocalyptic micro story’s published in Scifi-Shorts!! ift.tt/yf9uU0q

First ever HM in The Tenth Writers Playground Challenge 2025! South African Historical Fiction Story thats super close to my heart. Read below. 🥳 www.writersplaygroundllc.com/with-the-nig...