Four books, and a Multimedia CD-ROM!
True
Stories of Other Worlds, "Science Fiction"
For
Those Curious About How We Got Here
And
What Went Wrong...
WMD
Machete: (nonfiction) The "coming
of age" for
a young Global Citizen looking
for life on a dollar a day,
and
waking up to an instantaneous 22,000 dead in an almost forgotten event.
Godless
Goddess: (fiction) One man's Hawaiian vacation becomes everyman's
Wiccan Nightmare.
Havana
Ball:(nonfiction) Capitalist philanthropists visit the sexual
paradise of a Communist Zoo
Cell
U.R. "Tales from the Script": (Science Fiction) When
everyone's connected, what happens when it breaks down?
Cell
U.R. (Science
Fiction) The Musical Audiobook Radio Drama on CD-ROM
& Podcast
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as Alternative media for the New Aliterates
WMD Machete

WMD
Machete: (nonfiction) The "coming
of age" for
a young Global Citizen looking
for life on a dollar a day,
and
waking up to an instantaneous 22,000 dead in an almost forgotten event.
Guatemala to Guatepeor: How 22,000 Died for his sin.
by Mark Plimsoll
What happens when a twenty-two year old
boy's youthful innocence and idealism explores the Third World's second
fallen domino in the Cold War? A graphic description of his coming
of age in a Mayan jungle-nation of Guerrillas and revolutionary thought,
mired in the natural fecundity of illicit pleasures where roles
change from domination to subjugation in the time it takes a virgin
boy to orgasm, or an earthquake to crush a nation's urge to war.
Nineteen-seventy five, a 21 year-old
college student once read in the Encyclopedia Britannica about a country
with a per capita income of a dollar a day. He works and saves enough
to hitchhike down to Guatemala. He visits quaint tourists towns and then
wants to get away from it all to write- he lives in an Indian Village,
then tries out a new settlement on a secluded Pacific beach. Then
he attracts the interest of a French girl who 'got adopted' by a rich
Guatemalan family which sets her up to marry their youngest
son. Their first night together the earth moves- the Earthquake of February
4th, 1976 that kills 22,000 people and plunges the country into chaos.
The coming epidemics of disease and death mobilize the upper classes to
post guards, carry guns, and wait for the onslaught of those with machetes
who will come to loot.
Amid this exotic splendor- colorful indigenous cultures,
the world's most beautiful lake under its trinity of three smoking volcanoes,
verdant landscapes of tropical lowlands and cloud-shrouded rainforest-
the world shook and trembled for days.
Plimsoll weaves distinct realities of language and
culture, glimpsed through the cracks in the strata of economic class,
race, and human necessity, to create a vivid tapestry of the human condition.
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Godless
Goddess: (fiction) One man's Hawaiian vacation becomes
everyman's Wiccan Nightmare.
by Mark Plimsoll
A computer nerd escapes to Hawaii and
starts an affair with a young, energetic half-Brazilian tour guide, who
takes him along on her own vacation between tours. She knows the
sights, the sounds, the connections, and the undercurrents in and around
the islands' cultures. She also knows how to keep a secret- and to test
him, she asks him to hide their relationship when her friend, a busty
alabaster-white Scandinavian, arrives from Southern California. The
three explore Hawaii off the beaten track, share improbable true-life
stories, get drunk together in clapboard hotel rooms, clean an abandoned
tree house to camp in, and swim nude through wine-dark waves with Spinner
Dolphins. These outrageously uninhibited New Age Goddesses indoctrinate
him to the superiority of Wiccan maternal principles, and in return, they
expect him to donate more than his time and money. As they compete for
his attentions, he realizes how much he has to lose... his life.
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by Mark Plimsoll
Nineteen-Ninety Six, three years after
the population of Cuba suffers its "worst period since the Revolution"
which Cubans blame on the USA- scarce food, no medicines, little tourism
money, and an epidemic of Conjunctivitis. A group of idealistic Americans
think they've joined a religious group that wants to deliver aid, and
get embroiled into a group of unrequited lovers who desparately need to
get to the island nation of "want and lust" but the leaders
force teh group into 60s-style protests to antagonize the US Government,
as if they could enlighten the people of the United States enough to embarrass
the US Congress and Senate into changing policy toward Cuba. Whew. Mojitos
and Paladares, walk around all night with young Cubans through a dark
city stuck in the nineteen fifties, where water gets to the upper floors
in buckets on the ends of ropes. Shortwave singnals jammed as often as
the people danced, and even the four year olds' gyrations would make most
righteously indignant Anglo-saxons blush and feel twinges, of jealousy
and other sensations, down in their tropics.
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Book:
Cell U.R. "Tales from the Script":
(Science Fiction) When everyone's connected, what happens when it breaks
down?
CD-ROM
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Fiction) The Musical Audiobook Radio Drama on CD-ROM
& Podcast
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