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cry"/><category term="migration"/><category term="missing a thing of beauty"/><category term="moon of memories"/><category term="mugabe"/><category term="mureza in the shadow of the flag"/><category term="my ex"/><category term="myne whitman"/><category term="naked"/><category term="nakia you are killing me"/><category term="noviolet mkha bulawayo"/><category term="omale abdul-jabbar"/><category term="organic farm"/><category term="orimalade"/><category term="pot pourri"/><category term="publish"/><category term="publishyourstory"/><category term="quarterback and co"/><category term="rastafarian"/><category term="realism fiction"/><category term="ref adapting"/><category term="religion"/><category term="riddle of the broken circle"/><category term="ruzvidzo mupfudza"/><category term="sarudzai mubvakure"/><category term="sarudzayi chifamba-barnes"/><category term="sci fi"/><category term="sci-fi"/><category term="sigauke"/><category term="snake of the niger delta"/><category term="snakes will follow you"/><category term="south african author"/><category term="sucide"/><category term="suicides note book"/><category term="tamale blues"/><category term="the blue flower mountain"/><category term="the cell phone"/><category term="the charitable smoker"/><category term="the devils advocates"/><category term="the echo of silence"/><category term="the guitar"/><category term="the identical twins"/><category term="the lottery"/><category term="the matchstick man"/><category term="the nameless voice"/><category term="the nestbury tree"/><category term="the orange barn"/><category term="the phoenix"/><category term="the photograph"/><category term="the river of life"/><category term="the strange visitors"/><category term="the tale of maina"/><category term="the visa"/><category term="thinking aloud"/><category term="thriller"/><category term="to the gathering"/><category term="to the woods with a girl"/><category term="tokoloshe"/><category term="torture"/><category term="trapped"/><category term="truth floats"/><category term="tunji proposal"/><category term="two bankers"/><category term="uganda"/><category term="ugandan literature"/><category term="uncle jeffrey"/><category term="university gangs"/><category term="unspoken words"/><category term="uriah&#39;s vengeance"/><category term="village life"/><category term="waiting for april"/><category term="we shall be together"/><category term="wealth of ideas"/><category term="whitemans blood"/><category term="witchs brew"/><category term="yesterdays dog"/><category term="zimbabwe land grab"/><category term="zimbabwe war of independence"/><category term="zimbabwean diasporia"/><category term="zukiswa wanner"/><category term="’Dare Akinwale"/><title type='text'>StoryTime</title><subtitle type='html'>StoryTime: Weekly Fiction by African Writers.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://publishyourstory.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1187452933782537299/posts/default?max-results=1&amp;redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://publishyourstory.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1187452933782537299/posts/default?start-index=2&amp;max-results=1&amp;redirect=false'/><author><name>Ivor W. Hartmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04747901380659798898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKiiZyAejJGSfP0oFw13MQUiCB7oU-yMkA3j0gZ8tKBGFxp_p4eY_F9W6HHuFV7Am05Rj8VBXqbudyhxlXKRxw6JccM3zm479_gXKQwAy1DkLUVTSOxrKBMemyRhLPnQ/s800/Ivor-W-HartmannF(b).jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>195</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>1</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1187452933782537299.post-453336421663362205</id><published>2012-06-28T16:12:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2024-08-03T11:27:34.331+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="ivor hartmann"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="storytime"/><title type='text'>This is the End my Friends.</title><summary type="text">Dear StoryTime Readers and Contributors. 

It&#39;s been a great five years but all good things come to an end. 

It&#39;s truly been an awesome experience for me as the publisher and editor of this magazine, but it&#39;s time now for me to move on and focus on other projects. I want to thank every writer who contributed to the magazine and every reader who read them; I couldn&#39;t have done any of it without </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://publishyourstory.blogspot.com/feeds/453336421663362205/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/1187452933782537299/453336421663362205?isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1187452933782537299/posts/default/453336421663362205'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1187452933782537299/posts/default/453336421663362205'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://publishyourstory.blogspot.com/2012/06/this-is-end-my-friends.html' title='This is the End my Friends.'/><author><name>Ivor W. Hartmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04747901380659798898</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKiiZyAejJGSfP0oFw13MQUiCB7oU-yMkA3j0gZ8tKBGFxp_p4eY_F9W6HHuFV7Am05Rj8VBXqbudyhxlXKRxw6JccM3zm479_gXKQwAy1DkLUVTSOxrKBMemyRhLPnQ/s800/Ivor-W-HartmannF(b).jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry></feed>