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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...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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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...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Don't stop me laughing
  • Love stories ; Adultery ; Man-woman relationships
  • Although Sherry has another man, she is having an affair with Silver but the relationship is becoming impossible and likely to end although Silver insists he wants it to last forever. For one, she still feels some commitment to her man Jim, but...
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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...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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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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  • 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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  • 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...
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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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  • 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...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles

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