They were neatly edging towards being labelled "hazardous:do not approach, you will grow three extra toes (and a testicle if you're a girl) on contact".
Saaleha Idrees Bamjee is a photographer and writer based in Johannesburg. She has an MA in Creative Writing and is the winner of the 2014 Writivism Short Story Prize. Her first poetry collection, Zikr, was published by uHlanga Press in 2018.