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Not all men are dogs, some are jack-as-is and monkeys too. How to train a wild puppy dog named Manley is a West Indian romance novel. A "coming of age" love story Jamaican Yardie-style. It’s a tale about a girl named Libby, and a Jamaican boy named Manley, a yardie now living abroad. Libby Dahoust is a spectacularly beautiful girl of East Indian origin and a med student at McGill University. And Manley! Manley Jaxtan Woodhardt is an overexposed, oversexed Jamaican-born divorcee on the rebound. Their background dictates that they should take diametrically opposite paths to life in general, and to love in particular. However, when both their paths were to have crossed, while on route to higher learning. Sparks began to fly. Hearts got tangled up in the mix and a rocky road seemed the only way forward. Will they manage to make it out, in one piece? Only time will tell. | Backsliding Church Member is the uncensored, creative nonfictional story of one man who was to get himself kicked out of the Black Christian church, and for what? Yes, that. These are the stories about the faith, religious beliefs, and fiercely guarded secrets of some boat peoples, stowaways, and other wind-rush generations types of peoples, beliefs about the gods that they carried with them, or those that they were to have picked up along the way, but. | “Raw, Real, and full of Fun.” New Hiking Trail Cast Shadow on the Tattooed is a work of fiction. Born out of some fool’s wild imagination. Told in wry humor, and a feeble attempt at poetry. Yes, wordplay is the order of the day around here too. With snippets of Jamaican Patois inserted here and there throughout, as may be found fitting. Yeah man, a Jamaica yaad mi cum fram, sorry, I meant to say, I’m Jamaican born and bred—okay? | | There are 31 days in December, each of which holds fond memories for a man named Memrie. Come along and watch the story unfold, in the many adventures of Prickly Pole. Aloada’s Shirt Factory, is a grown-up Christmas story for the little child in you, and yes, in me too. So, you want something unique and different, right? This is it. It's Prickly pole’s story, and it’s a bit sick. “Aloada’s Shirt depot” is a story to go because it's a short story. A Christmas Tale to warm the heart. Told in wry humor, metaphoric terms, and a feeble attempt at poetry. Yes, we have a way with words, so. word-play is the order of the day around here too. With snippets of Jamaican Patois inserted here and there throughout, as may be found fitting. Yeah man, a Jamaica yaad mi cum from, sorry, I meant to say, I’m Jamaican born and bred -okay? |

When the devil, or that other fellow, is going to fix you he, or she, she will fix you right. She does it well. Are you a Christian? They wanted to know. Well. I couldn’t be a Christian, so I became a writer as the next best option. A fiction writer and poet is what I am now at the core. Here’s a bunch of my writing arguments, wrapped up in parchment. You’re sure to find something within, on which to build another set of arguments, sent. So. Knock yourself out. As I hang around here and continue on, writing love letters to my beloved black brothers, and yes, sisters too. Note, wordplay is the order of the day here. Each story is told with poetic flair, and snippets of Jamaican Patois inserted here and there throughout, as may be found fitting. Yeah man, yes, a Jamaica yaad mi cum fram. Oh! Sorry, I meant to say, I’m from Jamaica –okay?

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