Editorial: PREE 8
And just like that the twenty-first century has turned twenty-two. Its 21st year had been ruinous...
Category: PREE 8
Journey to Ashes
JOY MAHABIR
Going to the temple is a waste of my time because Mother told me about the true goddess, Kali. Kali is a warrior and must wear a fearsome disguise. She is wild, beautiful and courageous. She will protect her daughters. I feel her fierce love.
Caribbean Virgins, Caribbean Whores: Unlacing Goodness / Dismantling Perversion
SHIVANEE RAMLOCHAN
The first time I can remember being physically afraid of a man was at my Las Lomas home, during a Hindu puja. The man in question was our family pundit.
Rooted
ADAM ANDREWS
The first time was after a day at the beach. She should have walked away right then. Now she can’t. It was a nice day, too. Walking down to the beach she and he were talking when some boys, beach bums, started heckling her.
A Story. A Story. Let it Come. Let it Go.
LISE RAGBIR
In a dream, I’d solved the mystery. It wasn’t foul play. It was fair play—a game of hide and seek. In a dream, a woman could choose to conceal herself from her friends and family and the world, of her own accord.
The Long Walk Home
SUZANNE BHAGAN
On afternoons, Pipe Man was surprisingly absent. However, there was another stalker. This one she called Coke Man. Like Pipe Man, his shirt was also weathered, sweat soaked, and unbuttoned.
Duppy Conqueror
LAFLEUR COCKBURN
Lilian not sure if she in purgatory or paradise. Every night, since the start ah the pandemic, a duppy breaking in she house and doing things to she body she never experience in she seventy years pan god earth.
Let Me Sleep Where Touch-Me-Nots Bloom
DEMOY LINDO For me the bell tolls at 6 in the evening mother should collect me from class that ended at 5 for others in that extra hour my English teacher taught me more than I could speak I learned that being below sixteenNo...
From “A Suite of 7 for Belizean Artistry”
UBALDIMIR GUERRA “Yes, ih gawn, gawn foreva in a promis land” Mr. Wilfred Peters The voice of the king of boom and chime, Mista Peetaz, booms from the parched throats of hisKriol ancestor geniuses, who sangjourney songs of...
Millie’s Song
Sonia Williams 1. We came together you and I, came together we were taken by force together one by one by one by one we were chained, neck to neck in a line, we walkedwe walkedwe walkedon each other’s footprintswe walkedwe...
After Ananda
CORINNE BINNINGS The Ananda Alert system for reporting missing children was launched on May 19, 2009, in honour of Ananda Dean, an 11-year-old student of the Swallowfield All-Age School, who went missing on September 17, 2008. I...
Sexually Expressed, Violently Possessed
Carol-Anne McFarlane
Nice nipples.” This comment was directed towards me after I exited my car, less than 15 feet from my studio. I parked in the closest spot to the door, in a futile hope to not be harassed.
