Reggae Stories

Mango Skin is a coming-of-age romance told through humid summers, missed connections, and slow returns. Following Trinity Campbell, a 19-year-old Jamaican-American college student who revisits her roots in rural Jamaica after learning her last living grandparent is ill, she meets Tremaine (Trey) Williams for the first time, a local who grounds her in the simplicity of the land and the complexity of love. As they explore identity, cultural duality, and long-distance longing, they make the bold act of trying to choose softness with each other despite the struggles.

"Clackety-clack clackety-clack, from Kalamazoo to Timbuctoo, from Timbuctoo and back!" As a young reader, I learned these words by heart from a favourite children's book, 'The Train to Timbuctoo' written in 1951 by Margaret Wise Brown. I daydreamed about the journey between these two strangely-named railway stations, evoked so perfectly by the author's prose and accompanying illustrations. Decades later, I discovered I had been sold a fantasy, it being as improbable to take a train from Kalamazoo (a city in Michigan) to Timbuktu (an ancient city in Mali) as it would to line up at Marrakesh station ticket office behind Graham Nash. Only recently did I learn that Timbuctoo (a different spelling from the Mali one) is in fact the name of: a ghost town in California; a small settlement in New Jersey; and a failed farming community in upstate New York, none of which boast a railway station. Whichever were the book's fantasy locations, I never did manage to travel there ... by train or other means. But it had stimulated dreams of foreign sojourns.

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" We.. take.. " [Chorus:] Hey girl i need you, cause i feel you right now I don't care what people may, be think in this town I wanna hold you but it's over now Oh girl i need you, cause i feel you right now Beneath the beauty of that colors, vanished in the wind it's like we made just somethin different, ain't collided in between Pretending I'm alright the pain, cause it's driving me insane I used to keep this feelin so strong, to show where i belong " We.. take.. " " You're mine you're mine.. " [Chorus:] Hey girl i need you, cause i feel you right now I don't care what people may, be think in this town.. I wanna hold you but it's over now Oh girl i need you, cause i feel you right now [Repeat 2x] Believe my love will never fades, if you started turn the page In every edges of this loving, are the memories can't forget Beneath the beauty of that colors, vanished in the wind it's like we made just somethin different, ain't collided in between Pretending I'm alright the pain, cause it's driving me insane I used to keep this feelin so strong, to show where i belong.. [Chorus:] Hey girl i need you, cause i feel you right now I don't care what people may, be think in this town I wanna hold you but it's over now Oh girl i need you, cause i feel you right now Hey girl i need you, cause i feel you right now I don't care what people may, be think in this town I wanna hold you but it's over now Oh girl i love you, and i need you right now..

Bad Man's Woman- Was Elroy so infatuated with Carline that he would challenge a Don over her? Or maybe he didn't know who a Don was. Read the full story in Bad Man's Woman.

I recognised the tune. Not only did I recognise it, I knew all the words and would have happily rapped along with it. But not here. Definitely not here during rush hour on a crowded Underground train. I was seated in the end carriage on the Metropolitan line at Baker Street station, where the service often paused for around ten minutes before heading northbound. A man had just plonked himself down on the seat next to me, put on headphones and started his cassette player. The volume of his music was not excessive but, sat in close proximity to his headset on a stationary train, I was able to recognise the tune.

What if the person you're slowly falling in love with... is someone your heart has been searching for all along? Lia thought college would be all about surviving exams, chasing deadlines, and drinking way too much hazelnut coffee. But everything starts to change when she meets Nico, the quiet and dependable classmate who feels strangely familiar. As the two grow closer, they begin uncovering forgotten memories, old photographs, hidden letters, and a mystery tied to a childhood neither of them can fully remember. With every clue they find, they realize that some promises never fade-even if the people who made them do. As the past slowly finds its way back, Lia and Nico must face the memory that changed everything and discover whether love can bloom again after being forgotten. A heartwarming slow-burn Taglish romance filled with comedy, friendship, healing, and second chances-where every sunflower tells a story, and every memory brings them one step closer to home.

Yohohoho just some random songs that i love!