These stories are, in the main, new stories. However Anne Schuster’s In a State of Emergency first appeared in SASH Magazine, volume 30 no.2, August 1987. Coming in to Land, by Willemien de Villiers appeared in Women Flashing, edited by Anne Schuster, 2006. Running, by Makhosazana Xaba, won the 2005 Deon Hofmeyr Award for Creative Writing.