Friday, 11: 59 p.m. Peaks Island, Maine It was nearly midnight and Alberta Haskell couldn’t fall asleep. From her bed, she listened as the storm continued to rage along the island’s southwesterly shore. The frigid winds, peppered with pellets of freezing rain, snaked through the storm windows, making her shiver from beneath her heavy quilt. Alberta was … Continue reading The Sky Is Falling: Chapter One
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The Sky Is Falling: Prologue
18 March; Thursday, 11:23 p.m. Crofton, Maryland It was the sum realization of a lifetime, and David Haskell couldn’t stop his hands from shaking. Staring at the computer monitor, he wondered if he was making the right decision. There was only one thought prevailing among the thousands of others in his crowded mind: After all this … Continue reading The Sky Is Falling: Prologue
The Sky Is Falling
The deputy national security advisor commits suicide only a few hours before his widowed mother is brutally murdered on a small island off the coast of Maine. These events set the stage for a political thriller that ultimately leads three very different people on a journey of personal discovery and a quest for the truth. PROLOGUE CHAPTER ONE … Continue reading The Sky Is Falling
‘Let’s Go Camping’
This is a story about our very first camping trip as a family in 2002. This, unfortunately, is a true story. It was supposed to be a relaxing weekend of camping. I should know better than to include the word “relaxing” when talking about a camping trip with the kids and Laura, who — by … Continue reading ‘Let’s Go Camping’
New England Fisheries
The Gulf of Maine is a unique natural resource that has fueled New England's economy for nearly three centuries. Today, that resource and the traditions of New England's commercial fishing fleet are at a crossroads as government regulators, scientists, environmentalists and fishermen continue a struggle to find common ground in how best to protect and … Continue reading New England Fisheries
The Effect of Herring on Lobsters
It’s estimated that more than 73,000 metric tons of herring are dumped each year along the coast of Maine for lobster bait, but how does the use of herring bait affect the lobsters that are being harvested in the Gulf of Maine? That is the question Dr. Phil Yund and other scientists are hoping to … Continue reading The Effect of Herring on Lobsters
Fishing for Answers
[Rockport, Mass.] Bill Lee happily mutters to himself as he cleans the deck of his boat. Like hundreds of other fishermen throughout New England, Lee has been hit hard by recent changes in federal ground fishing rules, but unlike many of his colleagues he has found an innovative way to soften the blow. As he … Continue reading Fishing for Answers
The Lincoln Tour | On the Road copycats
In late 1986, two men who had stumbled across a black-velvet painting of Abraham Lincoln decided to set forth and begin a cross-country adventure, desperately trying to get the attention of David Letterman
PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY
A powerful, Boston-based law firm runs a secret operation to recruit highly-functioning psychiatric patients for clandestine work, including political assassinations. PROLOGUE CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO
Plausible Deniability: Chapter One
It was late afternoon on August 10, 1865 when Cornell Weston and Hugh Jeffries greeted one another on the sidewalk near the entrance of the Eagle Nest Publican House on Boylston Street, just a stone’s throw from the southwest corner of Boston Common and less than one mile from the city’s burgeoning financial district. The … Continue reading Plausible Deniability: Chapter One
NOTES TO CARL | LESSONS IN MEDIOCRITY 