Mesple Tree Yard Short Stories

Mesple Tree Yard Short Stories - a collection of Caribbean and multicultural fictions filled with murder, humor, witchcraft, love. A Killing on the Island -two brothers, one shot the other, who is the victim/villain? Their father has a secret occupation. The Island Wedding, The groom is gone, the bride is screaming in the back of the church. There is a scheming police chief and angry relatives. An Ethnic Story: Coal Woman: Azula and her sister, struggles to survive the claws of poverty on a daily basis. The Bitter brew concoction came without instructions to make the old man feel like a ram again. Azula demanded justice after he had his way with Ruba she was only a child. Thunder in the Heart - Thambo, a scholarly Ghanaian documents his homecoming because he wants 'a bride from my own ethnic group.' When the Heart Waits: Love and lust on a beach, on a bed of banana leaves in the moonlight, and when Trygve climbs through Ariisa's window. Later he declared that he is not the father of her baby. The power of voodoo is cast like a net, trapping him in a rum bottle, and the inability to function as a man. And more...