Centipede

By Martin Boyce

From the pen of award-winning writer, Martin Boyce, comes this collection of short stories set against the backdrop of the island of Barbados in the Caribbean. These stories plunge unabashedly into the underground world of the LGBTQ+ community, and plough up unconscious realms of repressed traumas which interrupt the protagonists' attempts to tolerate the limitation and hypocrisies of the society.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Martin Boyce
• Release date: Oct 14, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393857648

Martin Boyce

Martin Boyce was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and grew up in Barbados. He received his B.Sc. in Business Administration from the University of Brasilia, Brazil in 2004.Traveling extensively as an English teacher, he has lived in Japan, Spain, Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica.Martin has been writing since 2005 and has won several literary awards, including the Carolle Bourne Award for Literary Innovation. His short stories have been published in Arts Etc. NIFCA Winning Words Anthologies.He became a vegan in 2017 and currently resides in Barbados where he ponders the Anthropocene and Sixth Extinction when he is not attempting to write, meditate, grow food, find off-grid communities or play Capoeira.

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Centipede: A Trilogy

by

Martin Boyce

Copyright 2019 Martin Boyce

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This book is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and situations within its pages and places or persons, living or dead, is unintentional and co-incidental.

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Author Photo by: Khalil Goodman

Cover by: Jody Forte

Table Of Contents

Acknowledgements

Dedication

Introduction

Crapaud

The Fear

Centipede

About the Author

Connect with Martin Boyce

Books by this Author

Acknowledgements

TO THE NATIONAL CULTURAL Foundation, which not only provided platforms where I discovered and continue to hone my writing skills, but helped finance the publishing of this book. Ayesha Gibson-Gill you have always been quick to answer my questions, and your helpful suggestions and advice encouraged me to take myself seriously as a writer. Praise Rihanna.

To graphic artist extraordinaire, Jody Forte, you truly understood my vision and made it reality in this, the best book cover ever created since books. Thank you Khalil Goodman for dressing me in shadows for the author photo. I'm in love with the result.

Thank you little brother, Mark. You're a great listener, quietly encouraging me as I talk your ears off. You are a grounding force in my life and one of my best friends. To my autistic twin sister Michelle, thanks for all the wonderful writing material we've collected walking in our invisible high heels through alternate realities.

To my parents. I'm grateful for always having a safe place to return. It is because of you I started writing and I am thankful. You brought me into this world, but haven't made any obvious efforts to take me out of it, and you've never protested my living as I choose. It's led to this! (Hope we can handle the fallout ha ha).

Much love and gratitude for my extended family of friends who have always encouraged me to be more me, including Lica,