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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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  • 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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  • 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...
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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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  • 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...
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  • Buried treasure
  • Deception ; Buried treasure ; Man-woman relationships
  • As far as Joshua is concerned, women are not very smart and he has no intention of spending his fortune on his wife who considers him mean and lazy. He denies these accusations along with her saying he is easy prey to any conman, until the stranger...
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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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  • Blind man's buff
  • Love stories ; Man-woman relationships
  • Three young women set off for to catch water from the spring at Blind Man’s Hollow where very often there are mysterious sounds and happenings. The girls are not bothered by these things as they enjoy themselves with carefree abandon, especially...
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  • Behind your smokescreen
  • Man-woman relationships ; Marriage
  • The author, in providing guidance to young women on how to choose a reliable marriage partner, puts forward his theory of how one can judge a person’s character by the way he smokes. He describes the different types of male smokers, their likely...
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  • Behind your smokescreen
  • Man-woman relationships ; Marriage
  • The author, in providing guidance to young women on how to choose a reliable marriage partner, puts forward his theory of how one can judge a person’s character by the way he smokes. He describes the different types of male smokers, their likely...
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  • A yellow leaf
  • Love stories ; Man-woman relationships
  • A thirty-six year old man find himself developing a passion for a blossoming soon-to be seventeen year-old and he is not sure what to do about it. Sensing that his feelings are being reciprocated, he ponders the many ramifications of such a...
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