Tag: creole
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“manmzèl”
Short Fiction (Creative Writing Assignment) — Exploring Adultification & Pedophilia in a Patriarchal Caribbean Society SUNDAY MORNING, the scent of cocoa tea wafted throughout our family house. A three-bedroom, one-bath bungalow. The house that my siblings and I, and our mother and hers came of age in. The same house that my grandfather was more than man enough…
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“wey ah gobi?”
Micro Fiction (Creative Writing Assignment) — Imagining an Indo-Caribbean Homecoming I’VE BEEN DREAMING OF THIS MOMENT for as long as I’ve had a conscience. Of my own, that is. At eleven is when it’d dawned on me, just how many different groups of people crossed unfamiliar seas, in order for me to be me. I am the amalgamation…
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“wòz kayèn/cayena”
Flash Fiction — An Aladyann/Arrayano Valentines Day Short 😘 “¿PUEDO BAILAR CON—” “WI.”
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“fwi”
Micro Fiction (Creative Writing Assignment) — Guess the FRUIT! It made no sound. That was, unless it reached, or was almost to maturity. And as a child, spending summers on this very island, my motherland, I wondered how something so small could be so loud. So mighty… Young adult me is amused by the irony. They usually vary in appearance. However this one,…