Simon Says

Charlie remembered when he was five and was running through the yard shrieking in delight. He had just completely destroyed his mother’s garden. The garden she explicitly told him to stay very far away from. Then there was that incident when he was twelve and he was told to carry his sister down the street to his grandparents house and they were both to stay … Continue reading Simon Says

Female sexuality; Rape; Murder; Carnival

I wanted to stay silent on this issue. I wanted to ignore what was happening. I wanted to remain uninvolved politically in such a touchy subject. But I couldn’t. I am a woman after all, and I do have to live in a society where these issues are prevalent and these opinions given places of authority. Let me shed some light. Carnival in Trinidad and … Continue reading Female sexuality; Rape; Murder; Carnival