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Injustice: The murder of Emily Harris
Mike Davis
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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The Ballad of Sara Zane: The story of two surfers, a brahma bull rider and a country western singer
Mike Davis
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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Believe in miracles?It's hard to go through life without your people: Sara Zane's grandparent's fled Warsaw and worked their way across America chasing the American Dream as itinerant farm workers when her sixteen-year old mother, Gina falls in love with Hollywood stuntman Malibu surfer Tom Zane and elopes but not before leaving her diary with Velzy for safe-keeping. Tom is tragically killed a few days later. Alone, afraid to go home and pregnant Sara is taken in by a childless Irish couple from Lorimor, Iowa. For the first time in her life, she has a real home and gives birth to baby Gina but her joy is short lived as she succumbs to peritonitis, orphaning Gina, leaving her with a ribbon around her wrist and a tiny brass key. The musical Irish couple adopt Gina and raise her as their own. Gina grows up in a world music and will become a huge country/western star. He best friend, confidant and and protector during those years was her next door neighbour and 'tearaway', RJ Tibbs who'd be a bull riding superstar before he was twenty. Like most young men with more money than good sense and a low alcohol tolerance, RJ runs afoul of the law and is given the choice of joining the Marines or jail. Promising to write, her, RJ goes to Vietnam and sees things that no one should ever be exposed to and Gina loses touch with her soulmate. When RJ is eventually deemed fit to return to civvie life and cut-loose, he hitch-hikes to San Francisco with a hippie-chick and gets initiated into the psychedelic age that gets him into trouble again and he's forced to flee to Montana where he finds work on a ranch and has an encounter with an Indian Shaman known only as 'Smoke' who wanders the ancient game trails to assist those alone and in need. Later the evening he meets surfboard builder by summer and master cowboy leather-man by winter, Dale 'The Hawk' Velzy who had known RJ's famous Grandad, bronc-buster Casey Tibbs. The two become good friends and Velzy soon convinces RJ to get back in the ring with the big brahma bulls again. While he would be heralded in the ring, a freak accident sees him thrown from a stock-loading gate onto the horns of an irate bull and disembowelled. He will spend many months clinging to life until he is visited by the mysterious 'Smoke' once again and begins to heal. Enter: Surfer Shawn McQueen whose Australian wife dies tragically of cancer, who arrives in Lorimor to grieve with his estranged and bigoted father. To escape his father's bigoted raves, Shawn begins spending time at the Gold Rush Saloon where he meets the beautiful Gina and they start spending time together. Things are going along nicely and Shawn is actually believing he can love again when RJ appears on the scene and tries to kill Shawn in a drunken rage that has the busted up little cowboy on the lam yet again heading for Malibu where he hopes to find his buddy Dale Velzy. After a row with his father, Shawn encounters Smoke and is told to return to his home in California where he belongs and leaves for the coast on the first flight out of DesMoines the next day. A few weeks later Shawn is contacted by Gina who is recording in Los Angeles and he takes her to a beach party in Malibu at his old friend Dale Velzy place below the pier. On introduction: Dale, recognising his old friend's Tom Zane's last name and asks her about it and all she has is the little brass key that she has worn on a chain around her neck as a good luck charm for as long as she can remember. Velzy drops to his knees in front of his old sea chest and rummages around until he finds the diary Sara had left there so many years before. In the weeks that follow, Shawn takes Gina to one of the last location entries in the diary and Gina is united with her aged Grandparents who have waited forever for new of their only daughter or her return. "Miracles, ya gotta know 'em when you see 'em an' then you gotta go to where they happ
Surfboard shaper, Medford Haley arrives in California to do a three-hundred board shaping contract only to find that Clark Foam has shut down and there are no blanks. With three months to kill on his ticket, a rent a wreck burning dollar-bills at the curb, he looks up his long lost bud, legendary surfer/shaper/ballplayer, John 'Bubba' Bradbury in Venice Beach, home to musicians, artists, body builders and any number of odd-bod movie extras. A place where 'freaks' or outsiders just kind of blend in. Bubba, who is in the process of putting together a momentous baseball game, 'A battle of the titans'; asks Medford whose Gramps was a pro ballplayer to stick around and keep him company because the steroids he takes for his pitching elbow causes severe anxiety and panic attacks. Having played a lot of ball with Bubba, Medford agrees to help in the training and recruitment program for the big game. John 'Bubba' Bradbury's dream of pitching one last game against the best of all time with a team consisting exclusively of dis-qualified mavericks, misfits and downright drug-crazed outlaws, fruit-loop eccentrics with oddball nicknames and mental disorders still looking for names and crippling superstitions to challenge Leavenworth Federal Prison Warden's pet team of caged, iron-pumping one-eyed, mutants fuelled by rage. Medford takes one look and mutters reflectively, 'Business as usual.' Enter Aglakti 'Aggie' Anumiaq, an Inuit boy, fresh out of Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary and former member of their mutant 'Lifers' baseball team, here to try out for Bubba's team of freaks. Aggie: whose name in the Inuit language literally means: One who makes words stand or 'Songmaker' had served five-years for assaulting federal officers. He believes: that like his ancestors, he must first dream to manifest his future. Happy to re-visit the happy days of his baseball playing youth, Medford takes on the position of manager to help Bubba with his pet projects, remodelling his study at 'Dunrunnin', his house in Venice Beach and moulding dream team of superstar social misfits. Medford will soon remember Bubba's perfectionist side that fuels his severe anxiety affliction and superstitious tendencies. While Aggie revels in the down-souther's life in Venice, he still dreams of his arctic home in Seward Alaska. Then one day, quite by chance he bumps into a childhood girlfriend on the beach who is studying dance in Los Angeles. They learn to surf together and he falls in love. Things go well for the baseball team until some 'gang' members took exception to the team practicing on their turf, attacking Bubba's immaculate Nomad with clubs, shooting and killing two team members in the process. Things continue to deteriorate when Pee Wee, Bubba's best friend and team's dwarf-catcher begins hoeing a Russian Mafia Boss's wife's row, drawing a line in the sand that will bring the Russian Mafia into violent conflict with the Mexican Mafia that will culminate in a deadly turf war in the parking lot of the Santa Barbara City College during 'The Battle of Titans' baseball game at the stadium there. Aggie, who'd been dreaming constantly of Buniq Late Hiin his Inuit childhood sweetheart finally dreams of Bubba's team of freaks winning 'The battle of the titans'. After the game Aggie is offered a position on the San Francisco Giants but changes his mind when he dreams of coming home to Alaska: To Buniq, his father and his own brood of children. It's the story of a young Inuit man's experience of modern dystopia.
$uper $tats: Gulfstream Park West 2015 edition
Mike Davis
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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Brothers: It's more than just blood
Mike Davis
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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Youth Sports: Three Important Steps to Helping Your Child Enjoy the Experience
Mike Davis
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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Lovecraft eZine is a magazine of Weird Fiction and Cosmic Horror, with over 200,000 readers. Here's the print edition of issue #36 -- thanks for reading TABLE OF CONTENTS Cthulhu Does Stuff #15 a comic strip by Ronnie Tucker & Maxwell Patterson Better Halves by KC Grifant The Last Leaves by Derek Wentz Descent by Christopher M. Cevasco Restless Nights by Justin Munro The Thing in the Corner by David A. Anthony The Pardon of the Fogs by Cora Pop Mortuus Machanus by D.B. Poirier Resonance by Stewart Horn The Voice of Zarnak by Rick Lai White Light Panic by Phillip J. Johnson
Third and final instalment of Shawn McQueen Trilogy: The story of three surfers: Brian Shafter, Scientist Harry Cook and surfboard shaper Shawn McQueen. Five years separating each of the three men and from vastly different backgrounds travel life's journey in search of the answer to life's ultimate question: What is the meaning of life? The book opens in the late 1940's: Brian Shafter is the eldest of the three and a younger brother. A narcissistic, judgemental, evangelical misfit, with serious sexual orientation issues after being 'interfered with' on a church camping trip as a young boy. He will discover surfing late but soon begins to make a name for himself as small-wave stylist. He will fall in with a bad crowd, run afoul of the law and make a pact with God for not being caught. Riddled with guilt and unrequited love, he marries within his church, migrates to Australia to proselytise the gospel. Five years his junior, Harry Cook is an only child who loses his beloved father to cancer and decides to dedicate his life to science to rid mankind of this scourge. A brilliant student, Harry accepts a study grant to head up a research team for a major agricultural chemical company. What Harry discovers will cause him to throw in his career and flee for his life because he's blown the whistle on the most carcinogenic chemical known to man and a plan for the multi-national company to eliminate all pollinators and force agriculture into a total dependence on their product. A fugitive from big-Ag thugs he flees. Shawn McQueen is the youngest surfer of the three, a philosophical, older brother and a bit of a surfing prodigy who will grow up to be a leading surfboard shaper and a pacifist who will move to Australia in the late sixties. Surfing is the bond between these three men who remain friends for decades as the years pass. Brian will become a huge surf retailer in Sydney, Australia, Shawn will become a gypsey surfboard shaper who will settle in Noosa and Harry will disappear at sea after the research vessel he is working on sinks mysteriously with all on board. Recently widowed, pacifist Shawn buil an ocean going catamaran, takes-out the world's most wanted terrorist, and follows a girl with sea-green eyes to the dusty mountains of Afghanistan to help her rebuild her broken country. After a time in-country he leaves the troubled Afghanistan and returns to Australia where he meets a surfing girl and falls in love again. Things are wonderful until the late nineties, when a mutating, specie-jumping virus quickly becomes the pandemic extinction event that will end all life on planet. As the extinction event quickly shuts down the planet, a terminally ill Harry mysteriously appears at the gate of Shawn's acreage outside of Noosa after years of being missing and presumed dead. The three men who have seen and experienced much will spend the last weeks of life on Earth discussing the meaning of life. Only one will reveal the absolute truth and emerge as the Holy Man. Will it be the proclaimed man of God? Will it be the scientist? Or will it be the philosophical surfboard shaper?Who will be the Omega man who put the tools away and turn-off the lights for the last time?
Most passionately, he warns that rich countries have, in effect, already sacrificed the poor in Africa and South Asia, for whom, in the almost certain event of a pandemic, there will be no anti-virals or vaccines.
The Occupy Movement took the world by storm in 2011, with protest camps cropping up all over the Western world. Occupiers managed to get everyone's attention as they fought for their rights in earnest, but the movement has stalled in recent months as activists are not exactly sure what should be their next plan of action. Enter Mike Davis. With wit, humour and a remarkable grasp of the political marginalisation of the poor and working class by the 1%, Davis crafts a striking defence of the Occupy Movement and lays out well considered next steps to advance the movement.
John is the Dardanian scout who is just finishing up his three-year stint scouting planet Earth. But he has a problem. He has a wife, Diane, and a nine-month-old daughter, Mary, that he must leave behind. Their existence is a major violation of the Scout Code that John lives by, not to mention a confusing set of circumstances that he must deal with internally.The soul of science fiction resides in the world of social commentary, and the report John gives to the Dardanian High Counsel after he has returned to the pod about the possibilities and limitations of Earth fulfills that promise. However, while John gives his report, Diane, back on Earth, is left to pick up the pieces of her own life as a single mother who now has to deal with Mary as she has never dealt with her before. Mary, half alien, half earthling, is chock-full of surprises, and as Diane unlocks a series of clues that lead her to understand who John really was and now who Mary really is, her horror about her daughter's secret presents her with consequential life choices.