Tabanca and Other Stories

This collection of supernatural stories, set mostly in 19th century Trinidad yet riding upon the fluid waves of time, is witty, smart, and chilling. Surprises come at you from just out of the corner of your eye.In a jumbie bar, Tabanca, that breaker of hearts, drinks himself into a lonely stupor.A young soucouyant takes flight for the first time, and encounters the demon that lives among the roots of the silk cotton tree.A daughter of Papa Bois, imprisoned within the forest is released and has to relearn what it is like to be human.A handsome blond, blue-eyed English judge sets Creole hearts aflutter, but he has secrets of his own…..A tiny magical man is stolen from China, forced to come to the New World, where he feeds the locals’ addiction to gambling with daily dose of whe whe.And the captain of a slave ship learns that karma really is a bitch … only this time, she rises to him out of the sea, flicking her fish tail and demanding retribution.Meet these characters—and many more—in Tabanca and Other Stories, and find yourself sucked into a world where there is both cruelty and mercy, laughter and tragedy … where the emotions of the netherworld spirits are sometimes more human than our own.