Description

Woodstock Wonderwall is a short story, meant to be read in one sitting.

Zulpha has just moved into a small apartment in Woodstock, Cape Town — away from her parents, their questions, and the version of herself she's spent a lifetime pretending to be. She doesn't have much. She doesn't need much. She barely has the energy to unpack.

Then, behind a wooden board propped against the kitchen wall, she finds a door that shouldn't exist.

On the twentieth floor of a building that overlooks an alley, there is no reason for a door to be there. But the ornate bronze key on her keyring opens it. And what's on the other side is something completely impossible.

Zulpha pulls up a chair.

Woodstock Wonderwall is a quiet, aching story about what happens when we glimpse the life we've been too afraid to claim. Set against the vivid backdrop of Cape Town's gentrifying neighbourhoods, it follows Zulpha, a young Cape Malay woman navigating depression, isolation, and a queer identity her family refuses to acknowledge, as a strange magical door becomes the only window into a world where someone like her gets to be happy.