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  • Hurricane
  • Historical fiction
  • The hurricane sweeping over the land not only destroys Crawford’s banana plantation but also unleashes destruction in his family as he learns of his daughter falling in love with the young overseer at Severn. This unwelcome development and the loss...
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  • Italian vermouth
  • Fantasy
  • Fenwick has a surreal experience in a bar where he meets an old man with a skull for a companion, a bar maid who speaks mysteriously about mice, and a man who juggles billiard balls. This encounter reminds him that a “hand is nothing without the...
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  • Lunch hour at Joe's
  • Love stories ; Boxers
  • Boxer McGee is so upset at losing his girl that he hardly notices the inviting looks being sent his way by the girl in the red sweater at the next table in the restaurant. It is left to Frick, his manager, to assess the possibilities and arrange a...
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  • Firewood
  • Fear ; Fathers and sons
  • The boy had many fears including that of his harsh, domineering father who constantly yelled at him and threatened to “ …take a piece of stick to his behind…” even as they laboured side by side in the field. Left alone in the dark to carry the...
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  • Parakeets among the corn
  • Suicide ; Insanity
  • The parakeets came in droves and ate up the corn despite the old woman’s efforts to keep them at bay. She badly needed the money from selling the corn to buy the necessities of life—but all her efforts at preventing the birds from destroying her...
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  • Nightingale be her song
  • Love stories
  • While travelling aboard a ship, Bill fell hopelessly in love with Yvonne even though she was already in a relationship with the Spanish dancer. Bill tried in every way to win her affection, especially when he discovered that the Spaniard had a drug...
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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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  • One dozen red roses
  • Love stories
  • Stella’s childhood friend, Henry, claims that he is not always comfortable with women, neither is he a good judge of character and so he turns to her for advice about the women he dates. Of course, this means that Stella is always having to go out...
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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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  • On the road to Roselle
  • Historical fiction ; Morant Bay Rebellion
  • An unnamed Boy is playing innocently on the beach and wondering about the cause of terror among the people of Stony Gut. All he knows is the rumour that Paul Bogle and his men from Stony Gut had burned down the Morant Bay courthouse and this was...
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  • Man hunt
  • Crime
  • The cops are after Rags, bleeding from a gunshot wound from the police, who now takes refuge in the in the tenement yard behind Ben’s restaurant. Following the trail of blood, the cops pass through the restaurant, catch the fugitive and throw...
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  • Marry in haste
  • Love stories
  • Helen is reluctant to marry before she has had a chance to enjoy life, but when Bill ends their relationship, gradually the anticipated fun of playing the field palls. Luckily for Helen, her mother knows exactly what to do to get the lovers back...
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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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  • The little cobbler
  • Values
  • Zaccy, the old-fashioned cobbler and believer in high business principles, finds himself pitted against Pinero, the owner of the modern electrical shoe shop, who does not share his lofty ideals. For a while Zaccy holds his own until sickness...
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