{"id":193,"date":"2012-09-21T23:36:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T23:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/?page_id=193"},"modified":"2026-05-28T20:42:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:42:38","slug":"creative-non-fiction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/writings\/creative-non-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Non-Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Page-list plugin v.6.3 wordpress.org\/plugins\/page-list\/ -->\n<div class=\"page-list page-list-ext \">\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/writings\/creative-non-fiction\/isme-benni\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Isme Benni\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/Isme-Bennie-copy-150x150.jpg\" width=\"80\" alt=\"Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Isme Benni\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/writings\/creative-non-fiction\/isme-benni\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Isme Benni\">Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Isme Benni<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">George or Holidays By the Sea \r\n\r\nSouth Africans who lived in the landlocked Transvaal or Free State provinces would make for the coast for their holidays. These vacationers included my family as well as families from as far afield as the Belgian Congo...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/writings\/creative-non-fiction\/johanna-van-zanten\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Johanna Van Zanten\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/Johanna-Van-Zanten-pic-150x150.jpg\" width=\"80\" alt=\"Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Johanna Van Zanten\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/writings\/creative-non-fiction\/johanna-van-zanten\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Johanna Van Zanten\">Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Johanna Van Zanten<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Premature  \r\nAmy Ghostkeeper was born twenty-four weeks after conception: too early to survive, but that\u2019s exactly what she did \u2013 survive, at least for the first two years of her life. This is the story of Amy and her family, recorded so there will be ...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/writings\/creative-non-fiction\/oludayo-olorunfemi\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Oludayo Olorunfemi\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/Oludayo-Olorunfemi-pic-150x150.jpg\" width=\"80\" alt=\"Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Oludayo Olorunfemi\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/writings\/creative-non-fiction\/oludayo-olorunfemi\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Oludayo Olorunfemi\">Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Oludayo Olorunfemi<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Today I left \r\n \r\nToday is the day I will leave, not tomorrow, not the day after but today. It has to be today. Another month is ending and it is time to begin anew. It\u2019s a new dawn \u2013 a rebirth more like. Finally nothing is going to hold me back. 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