Poison

Henrietta Rose-Innes · 2007 CE · Short Story · South African · Contemporary

A woman stops at a petrol station on the edge of Cape Town as a chemical cloud drifts over the district. The story stays with her immediate perceptions as an ordinary place becomes unsafe. It won the Caine Prize in 2008.

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