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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...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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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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  • 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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  • A piece of rope
  • Family relationships ; Fathers and sons ; Country life
  • Young Jimmy seems set to follow in his father’s footsteps as a no-good thief and gambler until he is unexpectedly employed as a yard boy. He badly wants to maintain the trust Busha places in him, but the frequent beatings with a piece of rope...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles

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