Left Behind
His name is not there. Jalecia huffs on her frozen fingers as she reads the eight names beside buzzers, from top down again, and from bottom back up – as if that would make his appear.
Christine Barrow was born in the UK and lived in Barbados for nearly fifty years where she worked as an academic in Caribbean Social Development at The University of the West Indies. After retirement, she began writing fiction and has recently returned to the UK (Brighton). Her short stories have been published in Bim: Arts for the 21st Century, The Caribbean Writer and Callaloo, and a collection, Black Dogs and the Colour Yellow, was published by Peepal Tree Press in 2018.