From the pen of award-winning writer, Martin Boyce, comes this collection of short stories. Set against the backdrop of the sunny island of Barbados in the Caribbean, each story features a protagonist who struggles against the restraints of anachronistic colonial conventions still present on the island.Sometimes dark and brooding, the stories plunge unabashedly into the underground world of the LGBTQ+ community, and plough up unconscious realms of repressed traumas which interrupt the protagonists' attempts to tolerate the limitations and hypocrisies of the ultra-conservative society.[Includes the short story The Fear, published in My Sister's Voice, also by the author] Martin Boyce was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and grew up in Barbados. He received his B.Sc. in Business Administration from the University of Brasilia, Brazil in 2004.Traveling extensively as an English teacher, he has lived in Japan, Spain, Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica.Martin has been writing since 2005 and has won several literary awards, including the Carolle Bourne Award for Literary Innovation. His short stories have been published in Arts Etc. NIFCA Winning Words Anthologies.He became a vegan in 2017 and currently resides in Barbados where he ponders the Anthropocene and Sixth Extinction when he is not attempting to write, meditate, grow food, find off-grid communities or play Capoeira.
