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  • A Bit on Kingston Harbour, Jamaica
  • Boats and boating - Jamaica ; Kingston Harbour ; Cousin Hereward Postcard Collection ; The University of the West Indies Historical Collection (Mona, Jamaica)
  • Painting depicting Kingston Harbour. A sailboat is in the foreground with two smaller sailboats in the background and a ship can be seen in the distance. Coconut trees grow along the shoreline.
  • Cousin Hereward Postcard Collection
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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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  • Jazz under the stars
  • City and urban life
  • On a lonely walk home in the dark Silver encounters many disturbing city scenes: the police hunting down and killing Rags, a well known criminal; a woman shot down by unknown assailants as she spoke about political matters; and Babu meeting...
  • 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...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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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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  • Start of something again
  • Man-woman relationship; Interpersonal relations; Hurricanes
  • Duckett and Silver meet regularly at their favourite restaurant to talk about art and politics as the city grows restless in the aftermath of a devastating hurricane. During this time, Silver is flirting dangerously with a married woman right...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Storm Warning
  • Hurricanes
  • A hurricane is approaching and already the heavy rains are causing physical destruction and severe hardship for the people. For example, Silver has a terrible toothache and because of the storm he is unable to get to the dentist; Pinkie, desperate...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • 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
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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...
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  • Would you care to see a bailiff_or, 'ell, em 'N' 'O Amazons_Carboncopy
  • Women ; Adventure
  • The author laments the absence of swashbuckling non-conformist mamas of past who knew how to live dangerously in sharp contrast to modern women who have gone soft and sissy the world over. He then goes on to recount the hair-raising adventures of...
  • 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...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles

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