Works by
Writer of stories
X-pressing Caribbean folklore
With Written Word,
and audio productions – L.A.B.
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Boodoo almost drowns but meets a beautiful girl, who leads him up river to dangerous swimming pool. Is she just a girl?
Read by Lisa Levi
DRUMS ROLLING: a Stick Fight story.
Shamie enters a stick fighting competition in Moruga.
Rosie is the girl who catches his eye.
Anslem is his rival, in and out of the gayelle. The man he’s going to cut for sure.
But things don’t go to plan.
An audio recording, performed by Brian Richardson.
RIVER RADIO FM
Where folklore comes to life.
Three stories taken from Bushman.
Tune in to River Radio and hear three stories told in the second-hand first-hand. Stories about things inexplicable in the Caribbean countryside.
Listen to River Radio: The Old Man and the soucouyah, or The One about the Seer Woman, Bush of Ghosts.
The Old Fisher tells his tall tales of fishing on the open sea.
And this is the first story he tells.
Four men in a pirogue and a shark tangled in a seine.
A musical for children with a lot of Caribbean folklore and a little of Dominican heritage.
A folkloric take on the knife crime epidemic blighting London’s inner cities.
The final instalment in The Shadows trilogy.
An urban legend. A love story.
Birdie and Sy.
Together they must try to end the Drybone Man, stop him from collecting souls and bones on the London streets. But first they must accept each other and the legacy of who they are really.
THE SHADOWS SUITE
An Urban Legend is born.
Part II of The Shadows Know.
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The Shadows Suite uses the rhythms of UK Drill music and the metal of rock guitar to tell the tale of the Drybone Man.
The Shadows Know
An urban, Caribbean, Rock folktale.
My Soucouyah and Me
Do not read!
This short story is not for the fainthearted.
It uses the idea of the Soucouyah (the caribbean folklore vampire )
to look at the sometimes toxic relationships women have with each other.
SASA
The origin story of a soucouyah, that speaks of the history of the Caribbean:
slavery, rebellion, change, superstition.
read Sasa here.
The dance of the La Jabless happens late at night.
But what seems beautiful in the moonlight,
might be otherwise.
BUSHMAN
Neville lives in the Trinidad bush, a hermit, haunted by his past.
BUSHMAN is a novella that asks the question,
‘how a man end up so, living in the bush alone with the animals and bush spirits?’
Listen as Brian Richardson, brings Neville’s torment to life here.
Enjoy the journey.
Ananse
Papa Bwa
Hummingbird Story
Dwens
I enjoyed the class with you today. Thank you
Thank you. I hope you keep writing.
Hi Mrs. Thomas I was in writer’s block this morning on zoom so just wanted to say thank you very much for taking the time out to come and talk to us about writing a folklore
Thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Keep Writing