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  • A Little flat in Angel
  • Love stories
  • Helen wants very much to settle down with Steve in a small flat in a place named Angel, but she finds it very hard to surrender to her feelings because she is terribly afraid of being hurt again. In the end, her heart wins out.
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • The wine is more precious
  • Love stories
  • Henry contemplates the nature of reality by examining his relationship with two women. There is Muriel who he thinks is like a cup that has been exhausted in its giving to him, and then, there is the Blue Girl, like a vessel, immaculate and...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • The Moon or a penny
  • Love stories ; Man-woman relationships
  • Dick is repeatedly frustrated with his fiancé’s prudish attitude towards sex even after they are engaged. She never seems to understand the all-consuming passion that drives him to desire a total union of body, soul and spirit. Her seeming...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Anything can Happen
  • Love stories ; City and town life
  • The bar serves as a meeting place for various people: a discontented wife who does not want to stay home with her child; a disgruntled lover, kept from his beloved by her brother; three dangerous looking men who later feature in a rape; and a...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • The House Of The Pomegranate
  • Family life ; Sisters
  • An itinerant artist finds lodging at a picturesque rural house occupied by two sisters who seem to have a strange symbiotic relationship based on past events they cannot or do not wish to let go.
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Another day
  • City and town life ; Death ; Nationalism
  • The author describes a series of events that makes up a typical day in the city such as a bus catching fire; a group of high-brows debating whether there is any real West Indian culture; ordinary workmen recently paid going off in the hills to...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Christmas Eve
  • Christmas stories; City and town life; Rural life; Interpersonal relations; loss
  • Christmas Eve is usually a time of food, laughter and good cheer, but for some like Connie, there is little cause to celebrate. In the country, she listens to her family’s chatter as they express their wishes for a better new year. Mass Jim talks...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Night shudders over all
  • Man-woman relationship; Marriage; Infidelity
  • Night time seems to bring to fore all sorts of events and behavior as people reach out for life or try to make sense of it. The author presents some examples, including: the wife who suspects her artist husband of philandering with his latest...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Hot water
  • City and urban life; Interpersonal relations
  • A variety of scenes from city life: a vagrant arrested for loitering sentenced in court the next day; three mischievous boys playing on the beach; a man courting a somewhat reluctant nursemaid; an attempted blackmail that goes awry; a pregnant...
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  • Still life with Oleanders
  • Family relations; Death ; Childhood and youth
  • Thaddeus, a young boy, mourns the passing of his grandmother as he soon realizes that his life is about to change and those of his adult relatives too who must each work through their own problems brought on by the old lady’s death.
  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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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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  • Swing low, sweet chariot
  • City and town life
  • Amidst the haunting melody of the song "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot", the author presents a series of snapshots of the bitter-sweetness of everyday life in the city - people trying to escape their aloneness, people loving, hating, dying – in their...
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  • West Indian Sportsman 1971 Vol. 24 Nos. 6, 7 & 8
  • Sports-Periodicals; Sports-Caribbean Area; Sports-Social aspects; Yatching-Jamaica; Cricket-New Zealand; Cricket-West Indies; Soccer-Political aspects; Table tennis-Caribbean Area; Netball-Jamaica; Dragon Boat Championship North America; Olympic...
  • Sports journal of the Caribbean. It provides news, analysis, commentaries and updates on many sports including cricket, football, tennis and more.
  • West Indian Sportsman

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