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Excerpt 9
“Trust me, honey. Forget about his stomach. The quickest way to a man’s heart is through his cock.” Click the link below to get the book for 99 cents. The Gods of Sanibel – Kindle edition by Cook, Brian. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
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Every Mouth Down
Zamira motioned her into the circle. “You’re welcome to enter,” she said. Kak stepped carefully over the chalk boundary, not bothering to hide her exhilaration. Zamira took her hand, leading her to the small table where two rattan folding chairs waited in the shade of the umbrella. A small wooden box on the table held […]
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Pythagoras Condemned Suicide Because….Math
Of the many principles attributed to Pythagoras, the most securely identified with him is metempsychosis, or the ‘transmigration of souls’, a theory that considers each soul immortal and which, upon the death of its host, enters into a new body. To Pythagoras, the surprise entry of a newly released soul into the ethereal pool upset […]
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The World of the Thinking
As usual, Carter set a blistering pace. In less than thirty minutes he’d introduced himself to over one hundred patrons of the bar, inviting each one over to the table for a birthday drink. Each bartender got a brief visit and a generous tip. He ascended the bandstand and made the acquaintance of each member […]
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Call Me Zamira
Kak walked down Duval considering the fickle physics of grief and just how she might get Rudy to depression. Even with the progress of the day, she needed a method of speeding up. She saw it on the corner of Duval and Caroline Street. Sunshine Scooters and its fleet of bicycles. Five minutes and fifteen […]
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‘…I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain…of starving or wounded children…’
From the final note written by South African photojournalist Kevin Carter before ending his own life by carbon monoxide poisoning. He won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography with his 1993 image of a starving Sudanese child fallen to the ground, a vulture in the background awaiting its opportunity for a meal. Carter chased […]
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Drunken Philosophers for One Thousand
Carter insisted on moving the party from the Hog’s Breath to Sloppy Joe’s where, in his expert opinion, action would build more quickly. Now, with a quintet called Fleetwood Macaroni rocking the bandstand, Rudy set his pint of Spearfish Amber Ale heavily on the table. He wanted to enjoy the music, stop thinking, but he […]
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Are You Friends With Your Friends?
His friend, A.E. Hotchner, wondered why, with a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize, a comfortable home in Idaho for hunting and fishing, available apartments in New York, Paris and Venice, a fishing boat at ready to fish the Gulf Stream, a devoted spouse, friends all over the world and the adoration of critics, Ernest Hemingway would […]
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Strip Mining Prevents Forest Fires
Euphoria and the promise of advance in the wrong direction propelled Kak along the seawall like no force had moved her before. The boat slips in Key West Bight just to the right were aptly named. With every step she took they slipped by as fluidly as the water they organized. The world had changed. […]
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The old ‘stick of dynamite under the hat’ trick…
On April 19, 1922, a 77-year-old Felix Bourg placed a lit stick of dynamite under his hat and strolled down a peaceful street in his hometown of Tiranges, France, until the cylindrical cartridge lying on his scalp detonated. If there’s a punchline to this I don’t know what it is.
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