This book is a collection of poems posted in cyberspace over eight months by Quenntis Ashby, Margaret Callow, Dawn Evans, William Holt, Zan McDowell, Mary Linda Miller and Ashen Venema (domiciled in Taiwan, England, South Africa, the USA and Barbados), all part of a unique poetic conversation on a writer's website. The thread on which the poems were posted received over 26,000 views during its brief life, influencing the poets to publish this in order to make their poetry accessible to a wider audience. They may very well represent the root of a new imagistic movement within the global...

Psychological novel tracing the final stages of defeat and ultimate spiritual triumph of man. A married man falls in love with a married woman at the workplace. He has no previous experience in "cheating" and is overwhelmed by his newfound joy and energy for life. When he is suspected by the woman's husband of having a romantic interest in her, he cowardly denies this and in an effort to avoid his disgrace in the eyes of society, he brings about the woman's ruin. When she subsequently commits suicide, he discovers too late, that he has destroyed the woman he loves. Tormented by guilt and...

An abandoned baby is found by an old woman. She doesn't know she is raising a descendant of one of the Lost Tribes of Israel. Sesuj, a young man, goes missing. A journalist attempts to find him. He is said by inhabitants of Trench Town, Jamaica, to be a descendant of a Lost Tribe of Israel described in the Book of Numbers. A Priestess traces Sesuj's roots to the People of Israel arriving from Egypt near the plains of Moab, camped east of the River Jordan. King Balak is stopped by the God of Israel in his plan to eliminate them. One of Balak's ambassadors who is ignorant of Balak's altered...

A mystical coming-of-age, rags to riches story steeped in Caribbean culture and universal in its appeal. Meera is brought by her mother from Guyana to Barbados in search of a better life. They remain on the island as illegal immigrants where Meera spends her remaining childhood and early adulthood in hiding. Meera's recollections of Guyana and the East Indian traditions of her grandmother together with the Amerindian encounters of her childhood, mystically weaves for her a life of adventure and mystery in a land in which she sees herself as a captive. There is an ugly side to life in Barbados...

Carl is an idealist wanting to possess perfect knowledge and believing he does through subconscious exposure to the works of a surreal artist. Carl sees in dreams surreal images painted by a famous artist. He is disinterested in people, until his friends all drop dead through natural causes leaving him impressive gifts after which he discards his idealism and finds "true wisdom." Alone, his understanding of life becomes hazy and he has a violent meltdown. Inevitably, he finds himself in an institution where in his lucid moments he is charming and draws a male employee, Daniel, to him. The two...

Caribbean underwater volcano Kick'Em Jenny violently erupts leaving a few survivors - Nicky and some lucky politicians who could have saved their people. In a tale of human folly, comedy and enlightenment set in the fictional Caribbean island of Wui, a former British colony, Nicky suffers various mishaps in a developing small island governed by leaders in and out of the executive who probably have no clue about their real tasks - which is irrelevant to governance because the governed are either too busy with trivialities or too daft to care. In the midst of overwhelming small island...

Set in a paradisiacal Caribbean island, an unhappy construction worker with limited prospects, Jeremy Barnes, accidentally finds an ancient clay object at a work site. Soon after, life takes a turn for the better for him and his family. Years later, his son Michael decides to devote his life to the New Church by becoming one of its Helpers. Michael quickly discovers however that people are not so "good" after all. He doesn't know that the mischievous clay artefact has something to do with it and that his father, two decades earlier, had made a pact with the clay imp -- the devil himself....

Rooted in Carib mythology and dream interpretation, two people are haunted by similar recurring nightmares. Fate brings them together where their lives unravel tragically. In Trinidad a Carib-Amerindian boy has a recurring nightmare of being hacked to death. A Hindu priest recommends a change of scenery so he goes to Barbados. There he accidentally meets a female English student from Cambridge who suffers the very same nightmare although neither realises this. They are drawn to each other and fall in love. Before long, two visitors, one from each of their homelands, unexpectedly show up and...

A heartbroken young woman abandons her family after a tragic accident. She does a disappearing act in circumstances in which she is presumed dead and flies off to a distant land in search of herself. There, the Universe "speaks" to her through a host of new experiences and encounters and helps her to break away from the mental suffering experienced through an early, almost loveless marriage and the drudgery of domestic life. She finds her "soul mate" in the process but when finally she becomes strong enough to face her demons in her home country, her new understanding of the Universe and its...