{"quotes":[{"text":"Professor Khupe felt his chest swell with pride. It was doing so without his encouragement. If an electrical fault had stopped the elevator from rising, his inflating ego would have powered the remainder of their journey to the twenty-second floor.","author":"Taona Dumisani Chiveneko","tags":["africa","flame-lily","great-zimbabwe","hangman","mystrey","parnormal","thriller","zimbabwe"],"id":11775,"author_id":"Taona+Dumisani+Chiveneko"},{"text":"Professor Khupe rubbed his hand along the sand dunes of her windswept form. The static charge made her skin feel like the surface of a cactus. He recoiled. How he wished he had gone into the priesthood when he had had the chance. Embracing celibacy was far easier than battling the consequences of shunning it.","author":"Taona Dumisani Chiveneko","tags":["africa","flame-lily","great-zimbabwe","hangman","mystrey","parnormal","thriller","zimbabwe"],"id":12469,"author_id":"Taona+Dumisani+Chiveneko"},{"text":"This is a story of Africa. A pioneer woman's journey north was merely the beginning.","author":"Jeffrey Whittam","tags":["adventure","africa","cecil-rhodes","diamonds","gold","historical-fiction","lobengula","mashonaland","matabele","rhodesia","shangani","war","warriors","zimbabwe"],"id":14451,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Whittam"},{"text":"You keep distracting from the main point, Vaida. I did not come to Harare to study other people’s scars. I have my own to worry about. They make me sick. I will never recover from the events that carved them into my body. You should focus on healing yours instead of creating new ones.","author":"Taona Dumisani Chiveneko","tags":["africa","flame-lily","great-zimbabwe","hangman","mystrey","parnormal","thriller","zimbabwe"],"id":20097,"author_id":"Taona+Dumisani+Chiveneko"},{"text":"Mr. Gweta looked ten years younger than Professor Khupe had expected. His jet-black hair was trimmed so neatly that it would make a manicured golf course look scruffy. His face was exceptionally smooth, giving the impression that he had been born without skin pores and transitioned through puberty devoid of any facial hair to pockmark his countenance. Mr. Gweta’s face was perfectly symmetrical. An ant walking from one side to the other would experience a serious case of déjà vu.","author":"Taona Dumisani Chiveneko","tags":["africa","flame-lily","great-zimbabwe","hangman","mystrey","parnormal","thriller","zimbabwe"],"id":38197,"author_id":"Taona+Dumisani+Chiveneko"},{"text":"MUSHAKABVU, I may be in a tough spot, but I am more worried about you. I have never experienced anything close to a sense of kinship with any of my clients, let alone those I have never met. However, the world you sent me to investigate has inspired a selfless concern that is uncommon between strangers. I hope you are just a curious, distant observer in the affairs I have been probing ... But something tells me this hope was frustrated long before our acquaintance.","author":"Taona Dumisani Chiveneko","tags":["africa","flame-lily","great-zimbabwe","hangman","mystrey","parnormal","thriller","zimbabwe"],"id":39279,"author_id":"Taona+Dumisani+Chiveneko"},{"text":"One of the reasons why most relationships struggle is because we salute the problem more than standing besides our loved ones. We honor the problem, glorify it, magnify it and worship it, until it breaks the relationship apart. If we honored our loved ones more than the problem, forgiveness will not be a struggle.","author":"Apostle Tavonga Vutabwashe","tags":["apostle","apostle-paul","apostle-peter","heartfelt-ministries","holy-spirit","jesus","joshua-talena","papa-ayo","robert-kayanja","tavonga-vutaabwashe","zimbabwe"],"id":46598,"author_id":"Apostle+Tavonga+Vutabwashe"},{"text":"... Eloquence is merely the product of intelligence. History is not shaped by men of genius. It is shaped by men of unwavering will. Men who focus whatever brains they have on the savvy application of power. In the end, brawn will always do the heavy lifting. Brawn will always win the war.","author":"Taona Dumisani Chiveneko","tags":["africa","flame-lily","great-zimbabwe","hangman","mystrey","parnormal","thriller","zimbabwe"],"id":51697,"author_id":"Taona+Dumisani+Chiveneko"},{"text":"... Cynicism is the only tool that can scrape away the tint off rose-coloured glasses.","author":"Taona Dumisani Chiveneko","tags":["africa","flame-lily","great-zimbabwe","hangman","mystrey","parnormal","thriller","zimbabwe"],"id":78842,"author_id":"Taona+Dumisani+Chiveneko"},{"text":"Each heartbreak is a little death, all the same.","author":"Petina Gappah","tags":["death","heartbreak","petina-gappah","zimbabwe"],"id":81069,"author_id":"Petina+Gappah"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":62,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}