Prose in the Key of Life, Volume One, is the first installment of short stories by artist and hobbyist writer, Roland P. Joseph. The stories are set against Trinidad and Tobago's cultural and social landscape and are gleaned from real-life experiences. The Kidnap Miracle: Mrs. Pearl Rampersad, a genteel middle-aged housewife grapples with mid-life insecurities. She seeks comfort in the arms of a thuggish youth who blackmails her and places her family in grave danger. A Song in a Storm: Kerron Ali, a.k.a. Ocean Samuel, a talented youth from an impoverished village in Trinidad, wins a prize in...
Prose in the Key of Life, Volume One, is the first installment of short stories by artist and hobbyist writer, Roland P. Joseph. The stories are set a...
On Trinidad, the island of the steel pan, calypso, and carnivals, Annabelle Castello grows up in the impoverished Bristol Village before circumstances transport her to the affluent city of Port-of-Spain. At an early age, Annabelle achieves more than she could have ever imagined in her wildest dreams-- wealth, power, and fame--due to her youth and bewitching beauty. As she grows older and her looks begin to fade, however, Annabelle yearns to embrace the simple values and happiness she once knew.
Forty-five years after leaving for the city, Annabelle impulsively abandons everything...
On Trinidad, the island of the steel pan, calypso, and carnivals, Annabelle Castello grows up in the impoverished Bristol Village before circumstan...
On Trinidad, the island of the steel pan, calypso, and carnivals, Annabelle Castello grows up in the impoverished Bristol Village before circumstances transport her to the affluent city of Port-of-Spain. At an early age, Annabelle achieves more than she could have ever imagined in her wildest dreams-- wealth, power, and fame--due to her youth and bewitching beauty. As she grows older and her looks begin to fade, however, Annabelle yearns to embrace the simple values and happiness she once knew.
Forty-five years after leaving for the city, Annabelle impulsively abandons everything...
On Trinidad, the island of the steel pan, calypso, and carnivals, Annabelle Castello grows up in the impoverished Bristol Village before circumstan...
Michael Attzs is a young man whose unique ethnicity is a source of mystery, drama, and personal conflict. He has only blurry memories of his childhood, which include a frantic man leaving him at a Catholic orphanage in a village. His mysterious past leads to the shocking murders of his wife and son-and later to an ill-fated second marriage to a woman with alleged ties to his sordid past. The identity of his birth parents, and the circumstances that brought him to the orphanage, leads him to agonizing conflict and self-doubt. He concedes to his wretched fate and renounces his birthright and...
Michael Attzs is a young man whose unique ethnicity is a source of mystery, drama, and personal conflict. He has only blurry memories of his childhood...
