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    • Consider the screever

    • Consider the screever
    • Biographical fiction
    • The author explains how he came to give up his “… comparatively secure and carefree life of a screever ( a pavement artist)” to become a scribe – one who writes little pieces for the newspaper. None of this would have happened if he had not been...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Consider the screever

    • Consider the screever
    • Biographical fiction
    • The author explains how he came to give up his “… comparatively secure and carefree life of a screever ( a pavement artist)” to become a scribe – one who writes little pieces for the newspaper. None of this would have happened if he had not been...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Consider the limpet

    • Consider the limpet
    • Interpersonal relations ; Boarding houses - Fiction
    • The author presents an unfiltered observation of the minutiae of daily life around him. This includes his landlady complaining about the meter, the dog waiting to be walked, Anita talking to the parrot, Mr. Zacca coming down late to breakfast and...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Consider the limpet

    • Consider the limpet
    • Interpersonal relations ; Boarding houses - Fiction
    • The author presents an unfiltered observation of the minutiae of daily life around him. This includes his landlady complaining about the meter, the dog waiting to be walked, Anita talking to the parrot, Mr. Zacca coming down late to breakfast and...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • City stricken to the bone

    • 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...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Behind your smokescreen

    • 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...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Behind your smokescreen

    • 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...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Barometer falling

    • Barometer falling
    • Interpersonal relations; Women
    • The author gives a bird’s eye view of life among a variety of people on a given day and concludes with the story of Connie whose dog had bitten her friend’s child. Every day Connie feared the child’s mother would confront her with a medical bill,...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Background to Arthur

    • Background to Arthur
    • Best friends ; Biographical fiction
    • The author recalls the life story of his best friend, Arthur, who grew up in a church orphanage that believed in raising “ children on religion and starvation”. The harsh cruelty with which he was treated as a child and later hardships in life did...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Arabian night in Soho

    • Arabian night in Soho
    • Soho (London, England) ; Nightlife
    • With a group of friends, the writer listens to one of them describe his exploits in Soho where he has been researching its picturesque nightlife. But the author has his own dreamlike memories of Soho which he is unwilling to share with others.
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Another day

    • 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
    • A Pot of Cyclamen

    • A Pot of Cyclamen
    • Life ; Philosophy
    • The author purchases a pot of bright flame-coloured flowers to help lessen the austerity of the grey London weather, and to remind him of his home country where the landscape seems eternally drenched in sunlight. This simple act affords him the...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles

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