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amanda haynes
writer + creative + culture
Selected Fiction
Bush Baths
Read here: https://preelit.com/2025/09/21/bush-baths/
Published by PREE, "PREE 14", September 21 2025.
The Stands
Published by the Small Axe Project, "Small Axe: sx salon, Issue 43", August 5th 2024.
"Dessa was sleeping on a cliff of purple flowers when the memory slapped her. It shocked her eyes open and sat on her chest, making her heart ache..."
Awarded Honorary Mention by the Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Award, 2017.
"A clock chimes: Pills stashed. Pipes pocketed. Lighters clicked. Jars sealed. Eyes open. Blinking until vision focuses in on the small window with the cream curtain that’s still blowing in the wind..."
Published by POUI Journal, University of West Indies Press (Cavehill), 2013.
"De spirit roaming, hear, said Gran-gran. Not a duppy, the Spirit. Was roaming since I was a little girl in Bellaire and had a dream about my husband. Lord knows I too love my Thomas..."
By Amanda Haynes
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