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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...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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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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  • An Old flame
  • Marriage
  • Janet puts all her efforts into helping her friend Linda revive her marriage which had become very routine and dull. As she tries to help Linda, the truth suddenly dawns on Janet that in order to save her own marriage from boredom she herself needs...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • End of a dream
  • Love stories
  • Christine imagined herself living in a dream world with the stranger who regularly visited the flower shop where she worked. Eventually, she discovers that the man in her dreams was nothing like the real man whom she later comes to know and love.
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  • Drums in the night
  • Witchcraft ; Obeah
  • The sounds of the drums in the distance tortured her robbing her of her security and of her beloved Tom. Together they had openly mocked the power of the obeah men when they first came to the village, but all that changed when crops began to fail,...
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