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The Generator or Unlikely Beneficiaries of the Treaty of Breda

by ap | Sep 26, 2023 | Fiction, MONTAGUE KOBBÉ, PREE 11 | 0 |

But the wind always blows from the east in Anguilla, and sometimes we have had to go for weeks on end without the privilege of information, without the relative freedom awarded to us by a change in the course of the sound waves. During these grim weeks of silence we have continued our petty lives outside the boundaries of time – an insignificant group of refugees struggling to stay together beyond the scope of the victorious.

Laurel’s Secret

by ap | Sep 5, 2023 | Fiction, MIKAYLA VIEIRA RIBEIRO, PREE 11 | 1 |

Every morning and every evening Avó came out of her kitchen, synchronizing her daily rhythm to attend to the needs of the garden. She greeted each plant one by one because who else did she have to talk with these days? The scantily dressed telenovela stars on TV hardly minded what suggestion she had to offer. The radio jockeys powered on with too much reggaeton regardless of her protests.

The Old Guards are Camping Outside

by ap | Aug 30, 2023 | ALICIA VALASSE-POLIUS, Fiction, PREE 11 | 0 |

I pack de tools under de house before walking to de door. Is like my head carrying my legs. I cyaan believe how I tired so. Not even on de days when I use to work on de farm I tired so. Nothing in de cooler and I forget to take ice from de farm. Ice or no ice is juice tonight with dry bread. Breadfruit taking too much time to cook. Ain’t nothing like brown dried bread with lime juice in de night when you hungry.

Pork

by ap | Aug 20, 2023 | Fiction, PREE 11, RYAN CECIL JOBSON | 0 |

Black Power reigned on the cricket pitch. The boys’ history teacher, a graduate of Howard University, regaled them with lessons on Paul Bogle and the Morant Bay Rebellion. Soon, a custom of celebrating wickets with cries of “Bogle!” took hold.

The Vengeance of Moko

by ap | Aug 19, 2023 | Fiction, GILBERTE FARAH, PREE 11 | 0 |

Feria was glad to be home again. He thought back to the days after he left Miami, the placid silence at his New Moorings villa. Not a phone call, not a question from the rental car company about the body-shaped fender dent. Maybe another driver took the blame. Instead, a front-page news headline absorbed all the talk. Local drug dealer receives ‘hit’ in Miami.

The Cay

by ap | Aug 19, 2023 | Ethan Knowles, Fiction, PREE 11 | 0 |

Miss Rolle was running naked across a sandbank that connected two desolate cays. It was low tide, and the sea seemed to have retreated for good. The sand was bone white and impossibly fine, and the sparse foliage that sprung up from the limestone rock curled in patches like coarse hair.

The School Takeover

by ap | Mar 15, 2023 | CATHERINE-ESTHER COWIE, Fiction, PREE 10 | 0 |

Ms. Charlmagne sucked her teeth loud drawing the attention of the other teachers. She didn’t care. They’d been eyeballing her the moment she started teaching at Priscilla Prescod Memorial School with her tight-up skirts and long weaves that she let fall down her back like a white woman or one of dem chabine girls. But she was good at math. That’s why they hired her.

Looking for Lagahoos

by ap | Feb 17, 2023 | Fiction, LYNDON NICHOLAS, PREE 10 | 0 |

Jane Jr. thinks she has escaped but she hasn’t. She joins a colony of people like us, plastic people who inject smiles into their mouths and their cheeks. She takes pictures in flitting white linens and wide-brimmed hats and posts them to social media. Her partner does not hit her with his fist, or hit her at all, she says on the phone to Jane, while she applies the powder extra-thick below her eye.

Preludes

by ap | Feb 13, 2023 | Andre Bagoo, Fiction, PREE 10 | 0 |

Did you know Raymond Chandler lived here in Forest Hill? he asked. I grinned because he remembered Chandler was one of my favourite writers. Suddenly it felt good to be in a car driving along unfamiliar roads with a friend. It was early evening, chilly but not too much, and we saw trees that had turned red, orange and gold. We saw blackbirds on fences, and pigeons on old buildings. There were houses and gardens and libraries and museums.

Back Bush

by ap | Feb 12, 2023 | Fiction, KAMSI ARCHIPLEY, PREE 10 | 1 |

I stepped inside, the aroma of the air filling my flared nostrils; it was a combination of mangoes, something floral like perfume, and a dash of myrrh. I walked through the house under the warm orange glow and watched as you threw your heels off your feet, and our heights equalised. You unclipped parts of your pink wig and reached for the zipper at the back of your dress.

Passover

by ap | Feb 4, 2023 | Dwight Thompson, Fiction, PREE 10 | 0 |

Daddy used to be a dinki mini chairman himself before the heart attack. (People sey is bad duppy kill him.) He praised the ancestors when Courtney bawn. He never complained when she chose gerreh over dinki. “She’s a leader, Peadove,” he prophesied, “not a follower…”

Peter 3:15

by ap | Feb 4, 2023 | Fiction, PREE 10, Rachelle J. Gray | 0 |

This wasn’t hero work he was doing. Peter was well aware of that. It was his duty. To reshape destiny by taking a bold step to shift the course of history. While the general public scratched its head, longed out its bottom lip, and prayed that the reckless ride government had placed the country on would miraculously end, Peter had been roped into a grand scheme…

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