(Barbados at night)



The street empty > The darkness full > Angry whistling frogs

disturb the peace of the late night>some home lights have gone into

naked dark.>>>

quiet.:

As far as eyes can see,the church people have left their worship

and singing and the lights from the church hall have disappeared.

Moonlight catches shadows and stretches the pea trees,tall

coconut trees and grass bent over in prayer. still.>>>

peace.:

Stars shoot across the sky,but never make it to earth.The wishes are

sleeping.

A blue light shines through a glass window.A television light

spreads around the room with a snore and a whisper.A late movie,

interesting enough to keep some of the audience awake.The movie is

CRACKER.It stars Robbie Coltrane as a police psychologist. He

is good at recognising the mind's contruction of a killer,but is very

bad as a father and husband.He is cheating on his wife.He ignores

his children.He gambles.He drinks.He smokes.He is obnoxious.

Tonight's episode is about a man who broods over his father's

death,kills and then tries to tie the killings to a football(soccer)

tragedy.The name of the killer is Albee and is played,with great

intensity,by the scottish actor:Robert Carlyle..The audience cannot

takes their eyes off the screen.RIVETING.

The killer words --REMEMBER ME EH?,followed by his sililoque of

death.__

___ ><><><

______!""*[*]

The episode ends with the police psychologist solving the

crime,ending Albee's reign of terror.A BOMB EXPLODES,as the

psychologist walks away.



Wake up sleepyhead.

They walk to the bedroom,to the bathroom and to the shower. Small

talk about tomorrow.~~~the lunch meeting with Leslie.~~He has taken

thursday and friday off,so he could spend the next three days with

her.They kiss and fall asleep.

The room becomes dark and the house quiet. Nothing stirs in the

midnight hour. A cold wind rushes through the trees.moonlight

shines through a window,making a great contrast in the room.It

leaves a semi-dark glow.A coconut falls and makes a hard THUD on the

ground.It falls amongst the bushes and part of its outer skin is now

covered with wet dirt.Insects hasten to investigate the noise.

Some miles away,the moonlight find men on a beach,looking for

crabs;little specks of light shine from their hands.They are

searching holes in the sand as they walk along the beach .Someone

finds a crab.==laughter.

A long stretch of sand,with jutted rocks,lay in the distance.The eye

can see the outline of the coast and land.

A wave crashes against the tranquility of the land.Large

rocks hold firm against the sea;repelling its invasive tongue.The

foam becomes scratching curse words in the small crevices of the

large rocks,where smaller crabs hide.Another crash of sea rises

higher over rocks and unto the faces of lovers hiding in the

dark.They are wearing the colour of the night..camouflage.The woman

is afraid of the darkness and the situation in which she has place

herself.She shivers against the cold and the man's kiss.

The man,she met only a few days ago had sweet-talked his

way into her lonely life.Now after three days of unanswered phone

calls, he confessed his lie.



(ANOTHER LIE...UH JUST WANNA DIE)

(^""He was married with three children.he didn't mean to hurt her,but

his eyes had ruled his heart the day he first set eyes on her""^.)



Her disappointment sat her down .She felt like crying.Her heart was

broken again.AGAIN>for the fifth time in two years.she questioned

herself,but her heart persisted and his smooth tongue won out.

The confessing words fell from his lips,through the phone,into her

ear,around her eyes and rested gently near her heart..she was in love

again.WHY?

They talked for six days before the rendezvous was confirmed.She

trembled then and she is trembling now.



(CAUGHT IN A LIE/CONFESSION)



HE knew he had lied to her.He planned it that way.He saw her from

behind his dark SUFON glasses;her skirt had two spilts all the way up

her thighs.Brown long legs smooth and inviting.Some young men tried

to get the brown legs' attention.She looked away,sucking her teeth in

disgust.He approached her with a seductive smile.She returned her

smile and a conversation began.They exchanged pleasantries.No names.

No telephone numbers.Just casual talk in an afternnon sun.She basked

in his attention to detail,with every other word referencing her body

and his eyes glinting at the sight of her thighs.After a few minutes

she watched him walk away.They would meet again at the same place.

Next day they exchanged names and phone numbers.She gave her work

number with the extention and her home number.He gave her his work

number.((it was as he had planned)).

The third day she questioned him on why she could not call him at

home.He lied again.

__**(oh my phone is on the blink.Bartel and their repairmen are

holding me for ransom......last night i really needed to talk with

you,but couldn't. i was lying there in bed,beads of sweat running

down my back and i kept wondering abou you. I could not sleep,so i

looked around my bedroom to see if i could find other things to

occupy my head,but to no avail.i couldn't take my mind off you.please

tell me more about you?)**

She poured her heartaches into his plans.she felt so close to him.



(a letter)



DEAR CHRISTINE

I HAVE MET A WONDERFUL MAN.AFTER YEARS OF LIES AND

TORMENT,THIS MAN COMES ALONG AND MAKES ME SO HAPPY. I HAVE ONLY KNOWN

HIM A FEW DAYS,BUT I FEEL I HAVE KNOWN HIM FOREVER.

I AM JUST WRITING TO TELL YOUR READERS NOT TO GIVE UP HOPE.THERE IS

SOMEONE OUT THERE FOR ALL THE LONELY HEARTS.DO NOT GIVE UP.

THANK YOU

ALWILA

(a lonely woman in love again)





The letter was posted to the Sunday Sun Newspaper and addressed to

Christine,who would published it,so that the readers could take some

hope and joy from the words.



At night she sat and waited.******

___@___

NO PHONE CALL.%%!!_________

Night breezes into the living room and finds lonely.she waits to hear

his voice.No phone call>%%!!___________

Late night television is no substitute for his sweet words.

No phone call(%%!!__________

Milo in a cup with shirley buscuits helps to swallow disappointment.

NO PHONE CALL

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