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  • Thunderhead
  • City and town life
  • The author provides short insights into the lives of different people in the city at a time of social turbulence: Joie and Sam looks forward to Christmas together but tragedy intervenes; a seventeen year old boy furtively tries to seduce a girl...
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  • Ed is coming home
  • Marriage; Man-woman relationship
  • Joie keeps her husband fully informed about their neighbour who has a husband in New York and is left in Jamaica to cope with two small children. Joie feels sorry for her, but Sam less so as he notices the regular visits to their neighbour of a man...
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  • World's End
  • Death; Loss; Fathers and sons
  • The old man’s world seems to have come to an end with the death of his donkey, his only means of making a living. As he and his son inform the regular customers on his donkey cart route, a few show sympathy but most appear indifferent. Only when he...
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  • Banjo in the Melon Patch
  • Thieves ; Children ; Courage
  • Henry , ashamed of what seems to him as his fathers’ lack of manliness, decides to defend the honour of his family by stealing a melon. Unfortunately, he got caught and was dragged home to his father who surprisingly did not deliver the...
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  • End of something again
  • Love stories
  • Two artistic types meet regularly at a Chinese restaurant in Cross Roads and Sargeant (Silver) –one of the two-- is quite taken with a woman (Jean) who happens to be married to a “brute-like” man who works at the bar. An uneasy intimacy develops...
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  • Confetti
  • Interpersonl relations
  • Mabel’s invitation to a party brought forth diverse responses form her guests—some came out of curiosity as to why they were invited; others felt flattered at being considered one of the in crowd; while yet others came to stir up old rivalries or...
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  • Blue Roses
  • Man-woman relationships ; Marriage
  • A husband, bored and somewhat annoyed with the solicitous attitude of his wife, longs for his privacy and solitude, but when his chance for solitude actually comes, he finds the time apart from her unbearable.
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  • Cannon off the red
  • Marriage ; Man-woman relationships
  • Wiseman and his wife’s relationship is like a deadly game of billiard with each trying to out-manoeuvre the other. Ella uses the weapon of flagrant infidelity to wound his self-esteem, while her husband relies on his superior brute force to inflict...
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  • City stricken to the bone
  • Hurricanes ; Social classes ; City and town life
  • The author presents a microcosm of city life including : “wealthy bourgeoisie” who lives uptown; the “ pale stenographer in the administrative office; men and women living in “teeming shacks”; and “the… vice-ridden, violent myrmidons and the poor...
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  • A good time
  • Alienation of affections
  • A white American sailor, lonely and homesick, comes ashore seeking solace in a night club in Jamaica. He tries his best to fit in with the crowd and have a good time, but his overtures are rejected and he is left wondering whether this was a result...
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  • Lunch hour rush
  • Love stories
  • Milly is the best waitress in the restaurant and she is counting on this to help her to get a raise of pay so she and Phil can get married soon. However, her plan to confront her boss about the matter and give him an ultimatum, if he refuses, goes...
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  • Let us walk among our wild oats
  • Love stories ; Man-woman relationships
  • Dennis finds himself reliving scenes and events from his past life including his relationships with women - Eileen with whom he had a special bond, and her sister Ann, whom he fell in love with but never married. The mix of memories about the two...
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  • Landscape with figures
  • Photography
  • The photographer waited patiently for the perfect shot of the fishermen down by the sea, but the picture changed suddenly when shortly afterwards he was confronted by these same innocent-looking folks who now wore menacing looks as they ...
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  • Afternoon of the stars
  • City and town life ; Loneliness
  • Euphemia, the nursemaid, decides she has had enough bullying from the old woman and so instead of sitting at home crying, she decides to take the tram car to Papine to enjoy the cool breeze along with the sights and the sounds of the vendors...
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  • Enter through this door
  • Historical fiction
  • The author presents vignettes of life ---good and bad-- from the different social strata in Jamaica of the 1930s and the vision of an aspiring politician who recognizes that national development will only come, like childbirth, through much ...
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  • God made Little apples
  • Man-woman relationships ; Life
  • A husband is fed up with the daily grind that allows him to eke out a decent existence, but prevents him from experiencing the joys of life. He feels trapped by respectability, a low paying job and his growing desire for the youthful live-in helper...
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  • Hurricane
  • Historical fiction
  • The hurricane sweeping over the land not only destroys Crawford’s banana plantation but also unleashes destruction in his family as he learns of his daughter falling in love with the young overseer at Severn. This unwelcome development and the loss...
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  • Red dirt don't wash
  • Love stories ; man-woman relationships
  • Adrian, a simple country yokel, falls deeply in love with Miranda, a refined, city-bred lady’s maid. He feels woefully inadequate, but nevertheless, he tries to win her heart and this leads him to even buy a pair of shoes for his usually bare...
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  • Nightingale be her song
  • Love stories
  • While travelling aboard a ship, Bill fell hopelessly in love with Yvonne even though she was already in a relationship with the Spanish dancer. Bill tried in every way to win her affection, especially when he discovered that the Spaniard had a drug...
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  • Man with a load of music
  • Music
  • Rastus was born with music in his soul and spent most of his time dreaming, thinking, writing and playing music. The villagers never understood his musical genius but instead saw him as a lazy, shiftless person and treated him as such until his...
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