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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 Download
as Alternative media for the New Aliterates

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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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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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HAVANA BALL

   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 podcasts: Cell U.R. (Science Fiction) The Musical Audiobook Radio Drama on CD-ROM & Podcast Download
as Alternative media for the New Aliterates