Sweet Talk

By Danielle Martin

Written from a female perspective, Sweet Talk is a fun, short read that candidly portrays island men unapologetically pursuing the opposite sex.

 

Dive into the uniqueness of Caribbean culture, as you explore conversations between vivid characters, performing mundane activities, whilst traveling through the charming island of Trinidad.

 

From witty banter, to bold playful flirtations, come discover the ways Caribbean men use words, to win your heart. As those who have lived and or visited the Caribbean can truly attest.

 

Get this book if you love:

• The Caribbean/Traveling
• Conversation
• Relationships
• Humor

• Language: English
• Publisher: Les Grand Editeurs Publishers Ltd
• Release date: Nov 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201488857

Danielle Martin

Poet/Author, Danielle Martin hails from the lovely Caribbean island of Trinidad and Tobago. When she isn't seeking out nature adventures with friends, she divides her time between writing and her thriving plant collection. Follow her on social media, find out what new adventures and books this island gyal is creating just for you.

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SWEET TALK

Island women grow up with this, but visitors, be prepared for a whole lot of sweet talk as these series of short stories share. There is nothing like the linguistical charm and persistence of an island-man and as they say in the islands, chain up can get yuh in trouble.

If you have never touched sandy shores or had waves ripple over your feet, as if to greet, or smelled a crisp, mouth-watering, shark frying up in hot coconut oil then you have my pity. If you’ve never walked past an old roadside bar with wooden, chipped benches looking older than your grandmother, but still littered with groupings of silver-haired men dressed in shorts and slippers, with at least one amongst them missing teeth. A bottle or two of White Oak Rum on the table, no chaser, laughing and cussing up a storm in genuine friendly fun, again, you don’t know what you’re missing, it’s a whole lot more than you think.

Now island life is not perfection, but tell me what life is?

But there’s something about living on an island that engages inhibition, that feeds an innate hunger to be free from the confinement of consistent rules and regulations, brought on by advances and development, there is a need to be relaxed, to slow down and marinate in the juices of life.

Why? Maybe it’s the rogue salt air that wafts inland from the oceans, or perhaps the exposed logistical position of the landmass to seemingly everything that generates our unsurpassed openness.

Close your eyes and imagine a chain of exotic rocks, gasping for air, in the middle of raging waves, where beauty surprisingly abounds and life thrives with a rich vibrant innocence that history could not damper, a history that perhaps should have broken us, but instead created a melted culture of resilience and tradition.

There are many ways that islanders do this unwinding thing. Many ways islanders reconnect with the innate core of who we are – ole talk, small talk, sweet talk or what the outside world would consider simply as conversation. We are the masters of engaging, of entertaining, of liming, of inclusion.

The oral traditions of the ancestors, the storytellers has not left, many argue that it is lost, but I argue no, it is here, but the diatribe has changed, the level of seriousness rooted out, diluted into something more palatable.

Times have changed. Yes. There is so much to consider now that people want things simple and easy. Smooth and cheap, there is no better pass time on the island, than conversation, which stretches to include gossiping, bad-mouthing or what