by Janielle Browne First place winner in 2021 H. Nigel Thomas / UWI Open Campus Fiction Competition By the time my brother was fourteen, he had had his first woman. It was easy to tell; something was just different about him. Perhaps it was in the way that a bit of his teenage awkwardness was replaced with a mannish confidence. Maybe it was the way he now swaggered instead …
by Shanique Browne Second place winner in 2021 H. Nigel Thomas / UWI Open Campus Fiction Competition Flo Samuel was shelling peas on her veranda when she saw Maisie Woodley, the neighbours’ fourteen-year-old daughter walking up the garden path leading to the Woodley home. Maisie waved at Flo,
by Shanique Browne Second place winner in 2021 H. Nigel Thomas / UWI Open Campus Fiction Competition Flo Samuel was shelling peas on her veranda when she saw Maisie Woodley, the neighbours’ fourteen-year-old daughter walking up the garden path leading to the Woodley home. Maisie waved at Flo,
by Kathy Badenock Third place winner in 2021 H. Nigel Thomas / UWI Open Campus Fiction Competition “Not tonight. Not tonight”. She forced herself to relax the grip of her hands on the sheet she had pulled right up to her chin, despite the heat. The cheery floral pattern on the white cotton sheet was such a contrast to the terror she felt every night at the thought of …
by Kathy Badenock Third place winner in 2021 H. Nigel Thomas / UWI Open Campus Fiction Competition “Not tonight. Not tonight”. She forced herself to relax the grip of her hands on the sheet she had pulled right up to her chin, despite the heat. The cheery floral pattern on the white cotton sheet was such a contrast to the terror she felt every night at the thought of …