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    Storm Ports
    Storm Ports
    Storm Ports
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    Storm Ports

    By Robert James Allison

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    The island nation of Keykan is losing ships and sailors to violent storms, but how to stop the death continues to evade the leaders. The current president, having himself lost family to the storms, travels to the United States seeking help from that president, but finds no help, until he meets a long-haired man, unkempt at best, with something in his eyes that bespeaks trust and ability. Another short-story adventure in the life of Mike Maltby.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert James Allison
    Release dateJan 18, 2014
    ISBN9781311059284
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    Robert James Allison

    I was born and raised in Decatur, Illinois, but moved to the Moweaqua area around 1991. I like small towns and rural settings, as does my wife of thirty-five years, Barbara. We have two grown children, John and Anna to whom I dedicated my first book, The First Suitor. I started writing about fifteen years ago as a diversion from my regular job as an attorney. At that time I had been practicing law in Central Illinois for about fifteen years and was looking for another avenue to exercise my writing and organizational skills. Now after thirty years of practicing law I would like to write full time, but yet I find myself full time in the law and part time in writing. I enjoy telling stories and some would say that all lawyers are born fiction writers, because fiction is all they write in the first place. I have to admit that there is some truth to that.I have had five books published with Wings ePress, Inc., and more manuscripts in the works. I recently started the process of removing all of my books from Wings and putting them on Amazon in Kindle format and other digital sites. In the future I plan to publish all of my books in ebook format on various sites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Some new books will be going up soon, too.Recently I have retired from the private practice of law and have relocated to Louisville, Kentucky.I try to draw on my experiences in the practice of law and my life experiences in general to give realism to my stories and characters. In the 1970s I served in the U.S. Army as a Military Policeman and in the late '80s, I was a Captain in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General Corps, Army National Guard. I have been to Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, and many of the United States. I like to work the settings of the places I've been and things I've done into my stories. I write romance into almost every book, but it isn't always the main theme and it is never explicit or vulgar.I am foremost and always an entertainer and that is why I write fiction, but I try to make it real and believable as well as entertaining.

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      Storm Ports - Robert James Allison

      Storm Ports

      by

      Robert James Allison

      Names, characters, and incidents depicted in this book are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of the author or the publisher. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage, and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      First Suitor Enterprises

      www.RobertJamesAllison.com

      Copyright © 2014 by Robert James Allison

      Published by First Suitor Enterprises at Smashwords.com

      January 2014

      Cover photo by the author:

      A stormy beach, Cocoa Beach, Florida

      All rights reserved

      Table of Contents:

      Title

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      End

      About the Author

      Chapter One

      Joshua Ballinger sat quietly on the bench near a long pier looking out over the ocean. The South Atlantic is the prettiest ocean in all of the world, he mused. Of course, he had been born on the shores of the South Atlantic and was raised on a fishing boat out on the South Atlantic, so he could be just a little prejudiced, but he really didn’t think so. He had seen other oceans and he still liked the South Atlantic the best. The water was a deep blue and so clear that you could see the bottom anytime you were near the shore or a sand bar. The underwater life is exquisite, too, he thought. Fishing is the best and most enjoyable on the South Atlantic.

      Right now though, he was thinking that the South Atlantic, at least this part of the South Atlantic, was also the most dangerous. Along with paradise came perils. Having been raised on the South Atlantic he had seen the perils all too often. Sudden violent storms raged out of nowhere and dense fogs that could disorientate the best of sailors seemed to rise out of nothing. The storms and the fog had always been present in this part of the South Atlantic, had always been part of life, and too often—death.

      He hated that part of the South Atlantic because it caused too much death and destruction. Not only on shore from violent storms, but also from loss of good ships and sailors at sea. He was a sailor. He was born a sailor, and he would die a sailor, just like everyone else on this island. It was all they knew—sailing and fishing.

      The small island of Keykan had no economic base save the sea. Fishing was its only source of trade. There were only about 10,000 people on the tiny island and it was located in a very remote part of the South Atlantic. No tourists came this far south and none were asked to come, in fact, they were discouraged. The residents of Keykan liked their solitude and as long as the fishing trade kept going they were content to be alone in their paradise. Paradise except for the storms and fog, he thought with dismay. But what was to be done with the fog and the storms? The small island had no means to accurately predict storms and relying on forecasters many hundreds, if not thousands, of miles away was inadequate at best. That was when they could even get the forecasts. The satellite signals they could access were very unreliable and

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