Lessons from the Stand-pipe
‘‘We live on the main road across from the stand-pipe.” That is how I learned from my mother to direct anyone to our house. We were country people, my father an agricultural labourer, my mother a seamstress.
Edison T. Williams is a retired hotelier whose interest in writing started as a teenaged student at Harrison College but had to be set aside because of the demands of career and family life. On approaching retirement, he took the decision to attended creative writing classes at the Cave Hill Campus of The University of the West Indies and at Barbados Community College. He has since published two books, Facing North—Tales from Bathsheba, a collection of short stories, and Prickett’s Well—Who the Body Is?, a murder mystery. Tales from Ichirouganaim, another collection of short stories, is forthcoming.