Writing Practice

This short story will take your breath away... This short story has such strong sense of style and sentence rhythm. This short story comes from the Caribbean were English is not the first language but the use of the language is so measured and so strong... This short story is no "translition." There is a great deal of tension and coping. There are so many definitions of love in this short story.

"Hammer in the Head" is a very short fiction story dealing with a tragic accident, the hope, the healing and the coping and the love of grandmothers for grandmothers are our salvation. This very short story also deals with true forgiveness. Those readers fortunate enough to read this very short work will be reminded of simplicity, that simplicity works and that simplicity will get the job done!

This very short story is about a student who takes a short break from his very stressful studies and returns home to find himself in a greater stress or stresses. And even though he is studying to be a doctor and to deal or to handle all kinds of stresses or even disapointments, the human factor or the human condition remains. And the human factor with all its formulas cannot give a final answer..

This short story deals with the coping, the frustration and the nightmares of an engineer after a chemical plant explosion.. This short story deals with post-traumatic stress, the fears and the anger and the memory loss... And it also deals with the abandonment by those who supposedly love... The story also deals with the fact that one must want to be really healed in order to be really healed...