Missing Jamaica…

Miss the bustling sidewalks and dusty streets……women sitting in floral rags on sidewalks calling out for peanuts and trinkets and fruit… their skin like leather……their voices traveling over the slight breeze rich with……scents of jerk chicken roasting on open roadside fire and ……fried fish cooking and peppers and ……the sweat of men with flowing dreadlocks [...]

As a Babysitter

Twenty years old, babysitting at a local hotel. I walk down the long carpeted hallway searching for the room number. Everything is new and fancy. I envy the tourists as I think of the dishes at home waiting to be washed, and wanting to be on my own.
 
Two knocks. Door opens. I know right away as I [...]