A Five to Ten News Flash – Stephen Chan Wai Hong A Thought/Maybe – Paula Obé Thomas For my man (on J’Ouvert Morning) – Akemi Kochiyama-Ladson He Lays on His Back – Vanessa Richards Red Letter – Anon The Long Suffering – Tamara Thomas Trouble Start – Alicia Paynter
Category: Issue 2
Seduction or Rape?!?
So I told this guy once that he seduced me, and he said, “yeah, right, like you didn’t want to get down with me.” I said, “I never said I wasn’t down, I just said you took the initiative to make it happen “i.e. you’ve seduced me.” Discussing the same issue with another male friend, […]
Friends should not “Bunjhay” Duck!
Since I have no idea what that word means, I will refrain from commenting on it (wish more people would think this way). However, I am slightly familiar with the other words in the sentence – “should not Bunjhay Duck,” which I agree with totally. As my great grandpa Ned said just before passing away, […]
Goodbye, Cruel Heart
The two o’clock night air is cool and crisp, but as he approaches the intersection the sweat starts pouring and he rolls up the windows and turns on the air conditioner full blast. The lights go red. He eases his foot off the accelerator onto the brake pedal and a red-hot bullet rips into his […]
8:30 Restricted Audience
8.01 PM “What’s wrong,” I asked rolling over onto my back. “Sorry,” she stammered, “it’s just that I’m getting my feelings mixed up, emotional, I mean… you know? With this …physical–” (Shit! Where I put my cigarettes… got to quit.) “What you mean?” I lied. She pulled the curtain around her breast as she sat […]
Recipe for a Road March
Ingredients: 1 fist-sized bundle of cheap bandanas 4 dotish taglines A pinch of overweight dancergirl 1 pitcher of white rum 1 case of extra-strength local beer A bunch of unimaginative local soca singers (Foreign-based soca signers according to taste.) Five pairs of dirty short pants One slightly out of time Chinese dry cleaner/radio host 1 […]
Issue 2 – In which the EIC gets fired
Topsoil Editor-in-Chief Dennis Tayé Allen was released from his contractual obligations at the magazine today. A red-eyed Allen packed his belongings in two Hilo bags and handed in his resignation after accusing Topsoil management of trying to infringe on the magazine’s editorial autonomy. He cited a memo from Grasworx chairwoman Lisa Allen-Agostini criticising his decision […]