When Spirits Touch ...

In the mid eighties I sold everything and moved into an abandoned house a hundred feet from the Caribbean, in a tiny fishing village. I had a dream of writing a novel and took with me a portable typewriter. I slept in a hammock surrounded by a mosquito net, and learned to raise the hammock to window height to capture the breeze.

It was an adjustment living without electricity or running water. I had to carry a twenty liter jug to the spigot at the street, my sandals sinking from the warm top layer of sand to the cool beneath, to flush the toilet. Geckos roamed my walls and sounded like old women laughing when they called at night. But, with the gentle wave noise filling my sleep, the house was magical, and often I awoke singing a song carried from a dream.

I learned to love the village that took life and made its own rules. The bank opened at 9am, or 10am if the teller drank too much Cuban rum the night before, or had a quickie before work. If any particular house party you were at ran out of rum, well, you simply drove to Jose's house and paid him to open the back door of the Liquor store and sell you enough libations to keep the merriment going. If you had too much 'fun' the night before, well, you could always go to the pharmacy and get an injection of B12 to set you right.

My village was a child growing up. Because of that joy, that excitement for life and unique way of
doing things, I returned to it and used my memories as a setting for a novel. I hope you enjoy it. Here is a brief summary of Touching Spirits:

   Could you live beside the Caribbean in a hut with a palm leaf roof?
   With men following police Sergeant Cody Brannon, and some sort of spirit taking hold of his arm each night, he moves to a Caribbean village to draw the men stalking him away from his family. The moment he arrives he is followed. Strange Maya sit outside his hut day and night.
   While Cody prepares to be attacked he learns of love from the beautiful Clarissa. Love enables him to see what comes to him at night, and to solve the mystery of why women are being killed around his village.

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