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

A LITTLE girl in her pink floral dress skipped around the garden, barefoot, with her little basket, picking flowers and

A woman was crying. IT was a dark night in a small, dusty village deep in the countryside, bordered by

AMELIA stood at the port in Georgetown, looking beyond the expansive waters of the Atlantic Ocean to the far horizon.

IT was a cold, damp morning, and the threat of more rain hung darkly in the sky. Arista opened the

THE sunset – a collusion of brilliant, rich colours, a backdrop to stately coconut palms and smooth-flowing black-water creek in

IN a land on the north-eastern coast of South America, once a lost world, a hidden paradise, the eyes of

AMBER stood in the drizzle by the old white picket gate and looked across the lawn at the white house