country: Trinidad and Tobago

The Best Laid Plans

The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men Gang aft a-gley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief and pain, For promis’d joy. —Robert Burns, “To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough”   Ka Pau was humming with gamblers. Coins clinking into machines echoed throughout the casino punctuated by winnings […]

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Darby Maloney

Darby Maloney is a writer from San Juan, Trinidad. She writes short stories, poetry, and a children’s Heroes of Trinidad and Tobago series which includes Russell Latapy: The Little Magician (2007) and Stephen Ames: Trinidad’s Ace Golfer (2008). Darby has lived in eleven states and three countries, and currently resides in Southampton, New York and […]

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