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WHEN I GROW UP…. I want to be a surgeon or a barrister or an architect. Failing that, I’ll settle for being a journalist or at the very…
I Place and People, 1945 THE ISLAND RESTS like a gigantic prehistoric fish, tail fin stretching into the tempestuous waves of the Atlantic,…
Chapter Fifteen The doorbell rang at seven, making him jump. He and Rambo went to the door. Ms Jones stood on the doorstep under the light…
A spot of indigestion, anyone? Illustration Copyright © 2023 by Akaila Armstrong. DAVID PLACED two small scoops of cou-cou on Tasha’s plate…
IN 1816 Nanny Grigg and a group of other women, alongside Bussa in Barbados, took up arms to fight for their freedom. On 14-16 April, 1816,…
I WATCHED YOUR BACK until I squeezed a mere figment of you with my eyes. I wanted, too, more than anything, to go town with you, but mummy…
Chapter Seven Cameron leaned back, reading the last sentence. He smiled and then immediately frowned. Looking around the apartment with its…
INSIDE THE PRISON was warm. Adrian sat facing a grizzled man through a cracked plastic screen. The old man looked a vision of Adrian…
“TYRONE, YOU HEAR DAT?” He grumbled and turned his back to her. “Tyrone,” she hissed again. “Get up, somebody outside de house.”…
Chapter 4 THEY ARE ADMIRING Baby that night everything changes. They are quietly claiming things about her to the soundtrack of Adan’s…
For Myrna, the Washerwoman WHEN MYRNA LAUGHED, the sound rumbled from somewhere deep inside her belly. People would pause at the…
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