Caribbean & Diaspora Storytelling
Original Fiction · Caribbean & Diaspora
Stories from the House
Original Caribbean short stories rooted in memory, inheritance, folklore, land, family, and the things that refuse to remain buried.
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Nos. 01–05
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The Unquiet
The dead do not always leave.
Caribbean ghost stories
What remains after mourning ends?
Some dead leave. Others remain — in houses, rivers, family rituals, and the lives built around their absence.
The Unquiet is a collection of stories about grief, haunting, ancestral presence, and the uncertain boundary between keeping faith with the dead and refusing to let them go.
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The Houses
Every house is keeping count.
Land and inheritance
What does a building remember?
The Houses is a collection of short stories about the places families live in, and what those places keep a record of — a wall, a room, a doorway, a line drawn in pencil and gone over so it will not fade.
Each story stands alone. Together they ask what a building holds on behalf of the people inside it.
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The Ancestors
The archive is not neutral.
Records and genealogy
Somebody wrote it down. That is not the same as getting it right.
The Ancestors is a collection of short stories about the record itself — the registers, the clerks who kept them, and the families who come looking generations later.
A name heard once and written down wrong can outlast everyone who knew better.
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The Heat
There was no one to be quiet for.
Desire and privacy
Privacy was never a right. It was something you took in the gaps.
The Heat is a collection of short stories about wanting, in households built for everything except that — shared rooms, thin walls, a door that does not close properly.
Each story stands alone. Together they ask what a person does with desire when there has never been anywhere to put it.
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The Crossing
Somebody goes. Somebody stays. Somebody counts.
Migration and departure
The passage cost seventy-five pounds and they had forty-one.
The Crossing is a collection of short stories about leaving — the fare that had to be assembled rather than saved, the one who went first, and the one who waited.
Each story stands alone. Together they ask what a family gives up to put one person on a ship, and what it becomes while it waits.
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From the House
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The Unquiet · Ghost stories
The Nine-Night
After Miss Ivy dies, her granddaughter Althea prepares the house for nine nights of mourning. But the chair still rocks, the cup will not remain where it was left, and the final ritual asks Althea to release more than the dead.
On the ninth night, the family must persuade the dead to leave. Althea has other plans.
Read the storyThe Houses · Land and inheritance
High Water Mark
The marks start at the height of Enid’s ankle and climb the kitchen wall like the rungs of a ladder no one could climb. Beside each line, in her small slanted hand, is what that flood took.
For every other flood in that house she had written down what the river took.
Read the storyThe Ancestors · Records and genealogy
What the Clerk Wrote
Errol has four days in the record room at Spanish Town and a folder holding everything four generations of his family knew about itself. What he finds is a clerk’s handwriting, and a name that is not the one he came for.
“Nancy,” he said. It was not her name.
Read the storyThe Heat · Desire and privacy
Sunday Clothes
Kadian has gone through the barrier at Norman Manley, and Yvonne did not cry, because one of them had to be the one who did not and she has been that one for nineteen years. They drive home to a house with no one in it.
For the first time in nineteen years, there was no one to be quiet for.
Read the storyThe Crossing · Migration and departure
Two Tickets
The passage costs seventy-five pounds and they have forty-one. They count it twice on the step — once in hope, once properly — and then decide which of them is going.
“Then you go,” Merle said.
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