This collection is comprised of works of fiction. All names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the authors’ imaginations. Any resemblance to real events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Published by Akashic Books

©2006 Colin Channer/Calabash International Literary Festival

eISBN-13: 978-1-617750-92-2

ISBN-13: 978-1-933354-05-7

ISBN-10: 1-933354-05-4

Library of Congress Control Number: 2005934824

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First printing

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Peepal Tree Press for permission to reprint “Marley’s Ghost” by Kwame Dawes, which first appeared in A Place to Hide by Kwame Dawes (Peepal Tree Press, 2002); “Sugar” by Sharon Leach originally appeared in Stories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad, edited by Elizabeth Nunez and Jennifer Sparrow (Seal Press, 2006).

Photograph of Colin Channer by Joan Chan.

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