MONTHS passed, and during that period Shaan became closer to the family. His cousins nicknamed him “John Wick” and took

A story submitted to the Guyana Prize for Literature 2024 HE stood with his head bent, strands of dark hair

Ann-Marie closed her eyes and inhaled deeply as the plane started its descent. She was home again! Elation, like the

From branches to roots ANN Marie, a young native girl of the Arawak tribe, sat on the bank of the

I CAME into this world one late night, on a grassy parapet in the glow of a street lamp, but

THE charity organisation she was a member of was having an event the next day in Essequibo, and she invited

I WENT back to the hotel, not feeling too confident that she would show up that evening, but I dressed

FROM a young age, I grew up with an aspiration to be successful in life, to date beautiful girls, and

SHE sat in front of the ornate dresser, the only thing she had inherited from her mother, slowly brushing her

…and the soldiers stood at attention, saluting their superior officer, the Lieutenant General, as she entered the room in the