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      Excerpt from my novel FATE         It Was What She Knew    Tropical s cents   mingled with the pungent smell   of dried  and freshly  caught fish   coming from the busy waterfront, where Chinese junks and Malay payangs were offloading their catches of the day , and where the vibrant fish market bustled with the activity of men doing business and women doing the lifting .  As the sun dipped below the horizon, the  urgency  complete  their  work  intensified,   knowing that the sun would rise again to signal the start of another day  in  the relentless pursuit of earning a living by their sweat, which   highlighted  the   relation ship  between the rhythms of nature and the human...

 Excerpt from my novel FATE                                A Remembered Short Story               The sea, with all its beauty and danger, had now become a conflict zone for Captain Emmet Meagher, a place where he fought against his inner demons after the loss of his leg to the Son of Moby. While sitting at the waterfront longer than he had planned, gazing out at the place in the bay where, at one time, he liked to anchor The Lilly White, Emmet found himself among the ghosts of his past, again. He was mentally marred by the two seamen and the boy he had lost to drowning in the merciless Atlantic Ocean, near the west coast of Ireland, and not far from where the Spanish Armada sank.          An old sperm whale, disoriented in her death throes, struggling for survival, overturned their small boat with a violent thrust of her massive body...