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Better Days are Coming by Austin Mitchell Short   Summary of Stories Willis’ Lucky Escape- Will Willis escape his kidnappers and summon up the courage to testify against them? Read the full story in Willis’ Lucky Escape. No Tears for Sonya- Most persons believed that Sonya was a wicked girl. She had been involved in some bad things in her younger days and even since becoming an adult. Will she find redemption and repent of her evil ways? Read the full story in No Tears for Sonya. The Serial Burglar- Las and Dalby set out to capture Bender, a wily and dangerous praedial thief. On the way they have to fight the man’s sons to get to him. They also have to get out of Lobban’s Woods with Bender and avoid Clinch Salmon and his band of cutthroats. Read the full story in The Serial Burglar. The Troubled School-All sorts of problems were plaguing the school. Will it be able to overcome these problems? Read the full story in The Troubled School. ...

My Books on the internet are: Bring Back the Good Old Days** Better Days are Coming** Taking a Shortcut Home** Going into the Hills to Teach** I'm Back from the Hills Now** Undercover Soldier(Novel) Uptown Lovers(Novel) Going to the Bushes to Cut Firewood** Life at 21 Lane(play) The Freeloaders(play)  Sharpening up your Reading and Comprehension Skills Jamaican Abbreviations and Some International Ones Too Glengoffe Days(Collection of Poems) The Downtown Massive-Book One(novel) coming soon ** Collection of Short Stories Why not read one of my books, today. Some of them are doing very well on Free e-book net. My books are on Amazon, payhip and a host of other sites.

T HE DOWNTOWN MASSIVE-BOOK ONE Synopsis By Austin Mitchell            Main Characters in this story are:Errol Douse, Bobby Deacon, Myra Livingstone, Digger Lobban, Del, Shadow, Coltrane and Shorty Paul.                 Our story opens with Douse meeting one of his former enemies, now turned friend, Tad. Tad is on the hunt for Bus-up, who tricked his Don, Shadown, out of a considerable amount of money. Douse is just coming from prison after slashing up a man named Shorty Paul in a fight over a woman, named Hortense. Tad reveals that he has recently been deported from the United States for selling marijuana. They go to have lunch at a restaurant on Orange Street.  They have just finished eating when Tad receives a call from Sam, also recently deported from Canada. He tells Tad that he was following, Bus-up, Downtown when he gav...

I will shortly be publishing my latest novel, The Downtown Massive-Book One. It consists of approximately 133 pages and 13 chapters. Readers can read two chapters on my blog. I will be publishing it on Amazon, payhip and book fusion. This book is about violence and the Jamaican underworld. It makes interesting reading. Massive mean people so it is really about Downtown, Kingston.

Most times in the rural areas people went by their nicknames. It was hard to find a man, woman, boy or girl who didn't have a nickname. Some persons liked their nicknames, others detested it. Calling a person by their nicknames could sometimes break out into a fight. However sometimes we had to use ingenious means to distinguish between persons. There were two Ambroses, little Ambrose and big Ambrose. There were two Louise, white Loiuse and black Louise. There were so many Georges that we use both their christian and surnames. There seemed to have been an over supply of Ambroses thus we also had white Ambrose and black Ambrose. These names were only used to identify the individuals. We had Bigger, Roughy, Redman, Brownman, Shortie, Shortman, Son, Son-Son, Papa Son, Dada, One Son, Whitey, Blacks, Blacka. You only had to look some way and a name would be pinned on to you. Other names coming to mind are Mass Papa, Miss Mamma, Big Boy, Little Man, Wingy, Miss Daughter, Pretty, Tall Man...

I'm surprised at the number of bushes we used to make tea that have found their way onto supermarket shelves. Some of them that haven't are the trumpet leaf, sage and several more like the love bush. The trumpet leaf and love bush were good for the flu. We used to drink the tea from these bushes to cure colds and flu. There are many more bushes that we used to drink to cure one illness or another. Of all the bushes, cold bush remedies was the most widely used. In the rural areas in those days there were no pharmacies and the doctor only visited the clinic on a weekly basis so we had to find our own medication for these common illnesses.

I am now working on several books, One is Part One of The Downtown Massive and a new collection of short stories, The Worst is Over. I might decide to write educational novels. I particularly want to write books that can be used in schools. Many persons will know that I spent four years in the classroom as an assistant teacher.