WHAT THE TRUMPETER SAID, and other stories

139pp., paperback, Bostsotso, Johannesburg, 2026

ISBN: 9780639886732

A collection of short stories about ordinary people in extraordinary situations grappling with ambiguous moral challenges.

Former journalist Karl Luntta spent 12 years in Southern Africa and the South Pacific with the US Peace Corps and other non-profit aid organisations. His short fiction has been published in Toronto Review, Kalahari Review, Botsotso Literary Journal, Hawai’i Pacific Review, International Quarterly, Baltimore Review, Talking River Review, Literally Stories, and others. He’s also the author of the novel Know it By Heart and the short story collection Swimming.