Shackles by CE Botha

Shackles by CE Botha Tiekie (meaning: ‘tiny’ in Afrikaans and pronounced ‘ticky’) felt how, one by one, the bands of invisible shackles tightened around her small heart. Later that day, she could barely breathe as the creeping anxiety slowly swallowed up whole world and left her feeling like dying. The first set of shackles had...