If I Die Tonight

About the Book

“If I Die Tonight” is a collection of stories and poems written in a cool Caribbean island setting. But the book - which takes its title from one of the poems - has as its common thread, a moving spirit that is both unsettled and unsettling in the characters and moods coursing through its pages.

As such, elements keep shifting from mischievous to defi ant to revengeful to amusing to bizarre to pathetic to cynical to confident to vulgar to reckless to, perhaps, always tragic. In a simple style, the writer attempts to explore some complex aspects of human behavior in the small island environment as a window to man on the world stage.

About the Author

Rudolph A. Williams was born and has lived all his life in the twin-island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, located at the southernmost end of the eastern Caribbean island chain. He has worked as a Teacher, Journalist, Advertising Executive, and Businessman. As a writer of stories and poems, some of his work has been published over the years in local newspapers and magazines. His story “Cry Fowl” was awarded First Prize in one of his country’s National Short Story competitions . The poems in this collection are drawn from a previously self-published book called “After The Storm And Other Poems”.