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San Miguel de Allende, Mexico | Excerpt |“De Efe”

By Rick Skwiot Excerpted from San Miguel de Allende, Mexico: Memoir of a Sensual Quest for Spiritual Healing Contact: publisher@antaeusbooks.com De Efe Mexicans call it, D.F., El Distrito Federal, or...

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Sleeping With Pancho Villa / Excerpt / “The Gift”

The Gift He had just started across the zócalo, moving under the elms with white-painted trunks, where boat-tailed grackles were screeching noisily and settling in for the night, when he heard a voice...

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Christmas at Long Lake / Excerpt / The Lake

[Read Extras Christmas at Long Lake] [Rick Skwiot on writing Christmas at Long Lake] I come through the back door to the aroma of onions and bacon frying.  As I remove my coat I hear my father’s voice....

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Death in Mexico / Excerpt / Prologue

Prologue Nicholas Petrov stood with hands clasped behind him looking out from his glass bubble. That’s how it seemed at times. Glass walls on two sides running floor to ceiling, no windows that would...

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Key West Story | A Novel

 (The scene: Havana. The time: today. The characters: blocked and destitute Key West writer Con Martens; a young Ernest Hemingway, a.k.a. Nick Adams, sent from Writers Heaven to get Con back on track;...

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