Posts

Showing posts from May, 2021

Delroy: The Revenge of a River Mumma"

          It was that time. Delroy had reached a pivotal point in his life, as he is about to complete his right of passage of transitioning to the after-life. He had been under the tutelage of his parents, as they tried grooming him to become one of the most fearsome duppies in the district. Inevitably, both parents wanted him to be just like them, which unfortunately had him in a pretty precarious position. His mother Matty, was the infamous duppy that haunted and tormented the people of the district. According to villagers, she would usually claim her place under the big banana tree that covered the stop sign at the end of the road. Apparently, this was her usual hang out spot for many years before she died. Matty was a miserable young woman. Her neighbor's and the other villagers were shocked to the discovery of how young she was after seeing her obituary, which completely contradicts the age she portrays on a daily basis. She executed the decorum and rapport of an eighty yea