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  • 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...
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  • Remote control
  • Man-woman relationships
  • Peter, the poet, is torn between two women - Sylvia, his wife representing the subjective part of mind, and Claire, his mistress and the objective part. As he sets off in the night to visit Claire, the journey affords him time to contemplate and...
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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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  • Behind your smokescreen
  • Man-woman relationships ; Marriage
  • The author, in providing guidance to young women on how to choose a reliable marriage partner, puts forward his theory of how one can judge a person’s character by the way he smokes. He describes the different types of male smokers, their likely...
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  • Behind your smokescreen
  • Man-woman relationships ; Marriage
  • The author, in providing guidance to young women on how to choose a reliable marriage partner, puts forward his theory of how one can judge a person’s character by the way he smokes. He describes the different types of male smokers, their likely...
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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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  • The white wing
  • Marriage ; Man-woman relationships
  • While the wife basks in the satisfaction of the orderly life she has created in Jamaica after migrating from England, her husband feels trapped like a bird in a cage because circumstances force him to be too dependent on his wife who seems intent...
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  • Ed is coming home
  • Marriage ; Man-woman relationships
  • 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 next door of a man in a...
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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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  • Man waiting for a train
  • Marriage ; Man-woman relationships
  • Richard waited impatiently for the arrival of the Montego Bay train which would bring his wife back again. He could not help wondering if their relationship, after years of marriage, had changed in any way during this period of separation from each...
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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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  • The Prophet
  • Religion ; Man-woman relationships
  • The prophet announced to his followers that he was going to fly and commanded them all to sell their properties, bring the money to him and come to the settlement at the top of the mountain to await his flight to heaven. All seemed to be going well...
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