At six, I wrote my first essay. It was about communism, or so my first grade teacher, Miss Tremont, the one with the great legs, told me many years later at a school reunion. Since then I have become an international journalist, poet, magazine writer, poker player, horseback rider, baseball player and fantasy lover of the world's most beautiful women - Catherine Deneuve, Laura Antonelli, Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren whom I met once on a French beach on the Caribbean island of Isle de Saints and many more. I have written about cannibals, headhunters, outlaws, presidents, princes, country western stars and serial killers like Charles Manson. Above all, though, I write about love, communication, sex, sports, humor and everything in between.

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Resolve

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It's a hard job to survive paradise.

When I moved to the eastern Caribbean five years ago to work for the Observer newspaper, my publisher Kenneth Williams from Nevis, told me there was no such thing as road rage on the twin islands of Nevis and St. Kitts.

'If somebody blows his horn or flashes his lights at you, it just means you have the right-of-way,' said Williams, smiling. 'Or maybe the motorist is trying to greet you as a newcomer to his beautiful island.'

The publisher's words turned out to be true for three wonderful years. As editor of a weekly newspaper, I had access to the hig...

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