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    • The white cockerel

    • The white cockerel
    • Love stories ; Man-woman relationships ; Loss
    • Martie experiences a mix strange of powerful and liberating emotions as she prepares to kill the white cockerel for the family’s meal. Her recent amorous encounter with the foreman of public works has changed her from a mere girl with romantic...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • The reaping

    • The reaping
    • Love stories
    • Lilian and Henry are madly in love but likely to ruin their relationship due to the folly of youth. It takes wise old Uncle Silas, drawing on his own experiences, to open their eyes to some of the realities of life and set them firmly on the right...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Face

    • Face
    • Children ; Interpersonal relations
    • The author recounts an experience he had travelling on a tram-car when a woman was offended because another passenger refuses to let her child sit next to her. The offended woman curses the other in no uncertain terms, while the mother and her...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • On the road to Roselle

    • On the road to Roselle
    • Historical fiction ; Morant Bay Rebellion
    • An unnamed Boy is playing innocently on the beach and wondering about the cause of terror among the people of Stony Gut. All he knows is the rumour that Paul Bogle and his men from Stony Gut had burned down the Morant Bay courthouse and this was...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Holy terror

    • Holy terror
    • Earthquakes - Jamaica - 1907; City and town life ; Riots
    • An about-to-be retired reporter shares some of his many on-the-job experiences with a junior colleague. These include the Darling Street riots and the 1907 earthquake with its terrible scenes of human suffering and devastation.
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • The Talisman

    • The Talisman
    • Love; Man-woman relationship
    • He decided that the wonderful almost mystical bonding between them as lovers had to be broken, and to him fell the unpleasant task. He felt that he had given his all to the affair while to her it was not serious but something she could set aside...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • End of a dream

    • End of a dream
    • Love stories
    • Christine imagined herself living in a dream world with the stranger who regularly visited the flower shop where she worked. Eventually, she discovers that the man in her dreams was nothing like the real man whom she later comes to know and love.
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Gravel in his shoes

    • Gravel in his shoes
    • Man-woman relationships
    • The washerwoman did the laundry with meticulous care in the same way that she ordered her personal life, choosing to live above the common concerns and unkind gossip of her neighbours. She just wanted to be left alone to savour the living bond...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • The Broken Fence

    • The Broken Fence
    • Love stories ; Friendship
    • Luke, Tass and Joe, three old men, reminisce about their past lives as they work together to mend not only the broken down farm fence, but also their dysfunctional relationship caused mainly by their youthful passion for the same woman who...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • The Witch

    • The Witch
    • Obeah ; Witchcraft ; Loneliness
    • Old Mother Beck, the village obeah woman, is feared by all and loved by none. The villagers resort to her to regain their lost love, to cast spells on their rivals, and to compel others to do their will. She survives on what they pay her and so she...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • And one

    • And one
    • Philosophy ; Love stories
    • 1,461 persons perished aboard the torpedoed vessel, and the odd figure of one makes the protagonist ponder the meaning of life as “…The vastness of the heavens and its stars made him think of infinity and the relative insignificance of a lone...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Cannon off the red

    • 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...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • A good time

    • 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...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles

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