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The nearly story of the world's best Caribbean boat bumRon Añejo loves his carefree lifestyle in the Caribbean, sailing his barely seaworthy wooden boat from one dodgy job to the next. It's a life that requires lots of chutzpah and more than a little luck. Legal work for a boat bum can be hard to come by, even if you actually had a work permit. And Ron isn't big on formalities.Ron tries not to take life too seriously, and his optimistic approach...
2) Musk on Mars
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It's the entrepreneurs leading the space raceColonies require support and expansion to other planets means shipping supplies to them. Pirates love long supply chains and not even Elon Musk is invulnerable, although there is reason to believe he might do slightly better than cumbersome governments.This highly speculative look at the perils of building the first functional Mars colony stars Elon Musk.A short, humorous look at space piracy -- and people....
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Getting away from it all can be hard
When an LA private investigator heads to Colorado to see an old buddy and get in a little fishing, he walks squarely into a murder investigation. It's like he never left home, and he was looking forward to a relaxing time in the country.
The victim, a reporter for the local paper, worked for his friend Jimmy who retired there. Now Jimmy is calling in favors. The local sheriff isn't a exactly a go getter and Jimmy...
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A true story from the Caribbean, told casually in a bar in SE Asia...
triggered a strange and unexpected response.
A writer backpacking in Asia finds himself a quiet place to work. It's a guest house in the off-season. As he settles down to work on a crime story and finds a bar girl who wants to be his muse.
She is interested in his stories, and once he tells her about the murderer he met in Trinidad, fiction and reality blur together in a curious...
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How would you know when the last of anything is gone?
Everything has an expiration date, a point that it simply is no more. Most of the time we aren't even aware we've reached that time until we look around and see that our era has ended, our favorite ice cream flavor is no longer made, we can't get a telephone that doesn't connect to the internet, or the last duck is gone.
This is a story about two people, quite like us, living in another time, a...
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Se están gestando problemas en una isla paradisíaca.
Martha se despierta y descubre que falta su preciosa sartén de hierro fundido. Ella necesita comenzar a cocinar, pero no está en su lugar y nadie admitirá haberlo visto, mucho menos tomarlo. Debe haber sido robado.
Y eso no es todo lo que está mal. Hay un extraño sentado en el bote de esa linda pareja francesa que le dio la sartén, y los lugareños piensan que parece sospechoso. Afirma...
7) Imposter
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He stands out from the crowd.
A gunfighter can't just pass through a town like normal people do. He'll find his reputation precedes him. When a saloon girl expresses a need for a paid killer-well, life in a small town can get complicated for a fella quick.
Especially when the bullets start to fly.
A western short story.
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Living on the run is a hard grind.
Even when you decide to hide in a tropical paradise it wears you down.
Getting off that treadmill is tricky and sometimes you need outside help.
Sherry Proper is willing to do a lot to change her fugitive status, but she needs to have something to offer.
A meeting in a beach bar with a man who wants to bring down one of her enemies might give her that chance.
If she can give him what he wants, or make him think...
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Murder is always dark
A private investigator finds the dead body of a man being investigated by another investigator. A possible suicide with a lot of reasons not to kill himself, and other people who might want to do it for him.
A hard-boiled story of death and betrayal, with enough twists, enough double dealings to satisfy fans of Raymond Chandler.
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His own troubles start by answering a call for help!
A fast-paced tale of Caribbean adventure... a story of friendship, betrayal, murder, and danger. Flying to Trinidad to help a friend in trouble lands Martin Billings in the middle of a master plot run by an old nemesis. He has to turn to the murky underworld to find people he can trust - at least partially.
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Moteles en diferentes puntos de las carreteras de América, proporcionan una gama de servicios y precios.
Nosotros los usamos.
Miles de nosotros los utilizan como un lugar para descansar, para reuniones y otras asignaciones, e incluso, en ocasiones, para actuar dramas de la vida.
Son lugares sin alma, casi perfectos para los finales trágicos que a veces parecen asumir su propio poder y fuerza, al fin y al cabo, jugando con nosotros.
Sin importar...
13) Killing Ambition
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Ambition drives people to succeed.Ambition can make the price of success irrelevant.Ambition can kill your soul.Sherry works hard to keep life simple. She wants to stick to the important things: do good, interesting work, spend time with interesting friends and lovers. Too often the world and other people make things far too complicated. And when her work and life fuse together, when it's hard to separate them, crime and love, passion and paranoia...
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Cuando la locura que viene con el calor del verano en L.A. llega a tu casa huesos, amistades deshilachadas que hace que incluso pensar en una tarea. Tres amigos intentan a la locura del lago Tahoe, o tal vez.a una montaña sin el peso de un nombre.
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How much help do you want from computers?I mean, really want?When technology makes life easy for you, it's sweet. And Jess's new home is marvel of modern technology-a smarter than smart home. And it's also built to help him with his work, making his influencer videos.A muse is great. Automating boring stuff is even better. But how much creative help is too much?Better to ask the questions up front. Help comes at a price and it's smart to know what...
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Digging deep into city politics gets your hands filthy dirty. Sherry Proper has launched her legal research company, and her client, a high-profile has her digging where influential people would much rather she didn't. They will go to great lengths to stop her. Criminals are like that.Even with the help of her assistant, Cela, the mixed martial artist, and some out-of-favor vice cops, the odds are against them. But Sherry doesn't play fair either--whatever...
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Some things are so small…
Yet some of the most important things, the really big things can seem too small to notice. Billions of events play out under our noses.
Small but significant.
And some are small enough to alter the world.
A speculative story where the unseen and seen meet.
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How is life working without tech?People aren't happy with how technology has shaped the world.It's caused a backlash, a relapse into darker days that is now seen as a good thing.But that won't stop people from trying to rediscover what's been lost and moving ahead.A history of the not-too-distant future of the former first world.
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Boats are funny animals, especially old boats, and the sailors who ply the waters in them are even funnier.
This series of columns from a monthly column written for Caribbean Compass takes a humorous look aspects of boats and boating in the West Indies, Spanish Main, and north to The Bahama. It ponders the stranger creatures and stranger activities found in the Caribbean. From examinations of boating basics, like anchoring, to marlinspike seamanship...
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It's summer and hot... time to start a road trip. What could possibly go wrong?Friendship can.When three friends leave LA in search of something new, embarking on an adventure packed with wild experiences and strange new characters, they aren't looking for much but change. Hitting Vegas, exhausting their prospects, two decide to return.They scatter, but the the main road, the road ahead, leads through the Midwest to a small mountain town--high atop...