Letter from the Editor
In Reading India Now, a recent book examining new trends in Indian writing, Ulka Anjaria talks of...
Category: Issue Three: #TheCaribbeanisnotaRealPlace
Here Where Blossoms the Night
Kei Miller Here where blossom the orchids, two hundred & twenty in variety. Some have adapted to bone dry places, to being...
Monologue of a Garbage Heap in Havana
Sometimes, I grow so much that I become a giant. I feed off paper, cardboard, fruit and vegetable peelings, scraps of food, bottles, cans, glass, fabrics, tree branches, tables, chairs, windows, tools, rubble; car parts, computer parts, kitchen appliances, fridges, phones, TVs; anything you can possibly imagine.
CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF OUTSIDE MEN
5. On social media platforms the Outside Man is prohibited from leaving comments; when convinced to do so, he will leave a punctuation mark.
Gangster Paradise
“I finally in the back of the ambulance. It funny but of all the people I had to pay off left and right in my life, I never thought bout the ambulance services. Them fuckers took almost a hour to get to me.”
Two Poems
Summer Edward Gossip, from Albion Street ‘Gossip’ from the Old English godsibb, from God and sibb, meaning ‘relative.’ A godsibb was a godmother, godfather or sponsor; literally someone ‘related to one in God.’...
From the Wilderness, with Love
Adam Patterson
Concerning Bucks and Bacchanal
Kei Miller It was two weeks after Carnival was done and dusted away that the buck appeared. And I...
Three Strikes
Maelynn Seymour-Major I am sitting having coffee across from a man who says You’re lucky to be from...
Nausea & Nostalgia
Jessica Knight Mek me tell unu a ting or dozen bout naming. Plenty Jamaican people dem know di...
Berkshire Road, Coordinates Unknown
Yashika Graham They do not call the place Puss Hole like the people do, but a government name, a through-road clogged with shops and gravel passes leading to zinc roof illusions amid the trees.They do not call it an avenue, not...
An Incursion into a Real Place
Diana McCaulay Incursion: An invasion or attack, especially a sudden or brief one Incursion...
