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Some Colorful Characters 5

Quite a few colorful characters came to the library at Tom Redcam Avenue. There was this guy, he was quite a rowdy character. I don't remember what examinations he was studying for. At one time they wanted to ban him from the library for his rowdy behavior. Then there was this man who came to the library and would take down all thirteen copies of the encyclopedia. One day a radical youth asked me about the punishment for starting a civil disobedience campaign. One evening they had a function at the library and a man ripped off a woman's necklace, scaled the fence of a nearby college and was gone.

Sharpening up Your Reading and Comprehension Skills- now published

This book has at last been published. It can be had on Amazon, B ook Fusion and Payhip. Readers should check it out. It is reasonably priced.

Taking a Short Cut Home-Another perspective

Short Summary of Stories: After many years of not seeing each other, two friends hardly have time to get reacquainted, before one of them is caught up in an ugly incident. Read the full story in The Incident at Mc Alpine Street. Caston didn’t want any trouble, but bully boy, Keswick, wouldn’t let him be. Read all about Caston’s   reaction to his taunts   in The Stabbing Incident. When Carlene’s dead body was found in a dry river bed, suspicions immediately fell on her boyfriend, Denzil Barned. He was the one who had found her body. Ambitious young Sergeant, Peter Brown, is out to gain more stripes by pinning the murder on him.   Read the full story in The Body in the River. How did Pearline and her associates get away with running an illegal Cash Pot operation for so long? Read the full story in Instant Cash. Before he went to America, Pablo used to be bullied by the other village boys. Read about what happened when he returned from America in The Pabl

My Stories on Typotic.com

One of my readers went through virtually all of my posts on typotic.com and gave them a rating. I want to say that only a small percentage of my writing in on typotic.com. I sent an email to the reader, thanking her but she has so far not replied. What I would like my readers to do is to rate my books currently on Amazon.

Sharpening up your reading and comprenension skills

This book is aimed primarily at Grade 5 & 6 students in primary schools in the Caribbean. There are seven stories in the book. Each story is followed by ten comprehension questions. These are then followed by a list of difficult words in the story, their meaning and part of  speech. At the end of the book all these difficult words are used to make sentences.

Bring Back the Good old Days

Bring Back the Good Old Days by Austin Mitchell Short Summary of   Stories: Was Syd a crook or simply a kleptomaniac? Was he following bad company? Read more in The Young Shoplifters-Chapter   One. Why did Bubbles take away her rival’s baby? Was it to take revenge on her baby father for her own miscarriage? Read further in Bubble’s Baby. Why did Myra return to Jamaica after she had run away from Dixie? Read further in the Story of Dixie Jonas. What did Phyllis tell Dally about Myrtle and why did he leave Kingston so suddenly? All told, in The Story of Dally Gray. When Son Tai was murdered, suspicions immediately fell on some unemployed, suspicious looking men about the place. What did the Corporal find when he began his investigations? Read the full story in Son Tai’s Murder. Why was Celestine so determined to find out who had stolen her money? Read more in The Iniquity Workers. Will Wally finally get the girl of his dreams or will he let her slip thr