 While preparing to enter university, he also attended the Durban Commercial High School during one year, taking night classes.Meanwhile, Pessoa started writing short stories in English, some under the name of David Merrick, many of which he left unfinished.At the age of sixteen, "The Natal Mercury" (edition of 6 July 1904) published his poem "Hillier did first usurp the realms of rhyme...", under the name of C. R. Anon (anonymous), along with a brief introductory text