Stredwick

Father Christmas I honestly don’t know why they called Mr. John, Father Christmas. I don’t know if was the colorful clothes he used to wear. Or maybe it was the three piece suits he used to wear along with a top hat. He would dress up, especially when he went courting. There was one time we were on this outing to the airport to see one of our villagers off to England. As usual Father Christmas was immaculately dressed. He sat beside a young lady all the way to the airport. When we were returning we stopped in Kingston to have lunch. Lunch was being served aboard the bus. When the man who was selling the lunches approach him. “Me have curry goat, stew peas, jerk pork, ackee and saltfish. Weh yuh want, John?” “A want go a me yard.” Clearly he was hurt as the young lady had rebuffed his advances. He was a thrice married man on the fringes of his seventieth birthday. The young lady whom he went courting was in her late twenties. About fifteen minutes later I saw him eating a ...

The Old Man and the Bottle by Austin Mitchell   The old man was grizzled. I remembered him now, he was Jake Burnett! He used to teach me at Mc Cauley High School. That was thirty years ago. Jake would be in his late sixties, I thought.  "Juicy promised to rent me a room. When we went there, the woman was still in the room. But as soon as she comes out he says I can have it." "How much are you paying for it?" Boyd asked. "Twenty thousand dollars." Boyd whistled. "That's a lot of money," he opined. I don't think Jake would recognize me since he had only taught me for three months. I looked at Jake again. He was sitting under a tamarind tree in front of the playfield at Mc Cauley High. His clothes were worn and his shoes just about to give way.   He took a quart bottle of out of his bag. White rum! It was half full. Boyd and another man, Justin, were soon helping themselves to some of the rum and boom. Justin had got...

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This collection of short stories has more than 1,000 hits on payhip but no sales. Here is a short summary of the stories . 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 his   wife, 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...

Village Love is a collection of five of the most popular short stories written by me. These stories are: The Inheritance, Bad Man's Woman, Mid Town Lovers, No Tears for Sonya and Son Tai's Murder. Some of them can be read on Free e Book Net. Read my stories on Wattpad.com. I'm known as old cricketer. Please visit my stories on payhip.com.

I have published the following books: Better Days are Coming** Uptown Lovers-Book One & Two-Novel Undercover Soldier-Part One & Two-Novel The Downtown Massive-Book One-Novel Bring Back the Good Old Days** Going Into the Hills To Teach** I'm Back From the Hills Now** Life at 21 Lane-Play The Free Loaders-Play Waiting to Cross the Bridge** Going to the Bushes to Cut Firewood** Taking a Short-cut Home** Jamaican Abbreviations plus Some International Ones Too-Educational Book Sharpening up Your Reading and Comprehension Skills-Educational Book Glengoffe Days*** **Collection of Short Stories ***Collection of Poems My books are available on Amazon, payhip, Goodreads, draft2 digital and many other book marketing channels. You can also find my stories on Wattpad. I'm known old cricketer. Please also visit my stories on payhip.com. Austin Mitchell Blog:stredwick.blogspot.com email: glengoffe1@cwjamaica.com