Randy Baker
Bio
Poet, author, essayist.
My Vocal "Top Stories":
* The Breakers Motel * 7 * Holding On * Til Death Do Us Part * The Fisherman
Stories (177)
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It's a Hell of a Thing. Content Warning.
I killed a man with my bare hands. That’s not something I tell too many people and I’m not completely sure why I’m telling you now. There’s something in your eyes, I guess. It’s not that you look so much like someone I can trust. No, I don’t think that’s exactly it. You just strike me as the kind of person who wouldn’t care.
By Randy Baker2 years ago in Fiction
Simone's Duppy
[Author's Note: duppy means ghost in Jamaican Patois] Simone never like to be alone, but that’s how she spend much of her time. After walking home from school, she would play alone in her room until someone else come home. Her mother, Andrea, did work at the patty shop, down the hill in the village. Basil only did work some of the time. Most of the time him was just lookin’ likkle work, or so him did say. Most times him was spending Andrea’s money down the rum bar.
By Randy Baker2 years ago in Fiction
Checkpoint
Heading west on the A1 toward Montego Bay, a military checkpoint reduced traffic to a slow crawl. Most of the parish of St. James was under a state of emergency, a fact I’d forgotten during our week-long vacation. When I saw the line of brake lights ahead, I knew what was going on, even before I saw the soldiers.
By Randy Baker2 years ago in Fiction
