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As always, thank you for your support. Keep reading, and be sure to enjoy the details and small joys of life.

Sincerely,
Markus

Asteroids

When he was a child, Hudson had played a video game called Asteroids. It was a simple game, developed in the early days of computing. The graphics were basic. You were a triangle-shaped spaceship that could rotate to shoot at irregular shapes, the asteroids, which broke up into smaller and smaller pieces until they were destroyed  . . .
 
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Luck of the Draft

Jimmy got his draft notice in the mail. He saw it as a death sentence. So many young men like him were dying in Vietnam. Others were coming home maimed for life . . .

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A Perilous and Fantastic Journey

He had been in the forest for many days, and he was hungry. The canopy of pine and fir trees shielded the sun, but now it had gone away entirely, so that not even the filtered light shone through . . .

I have titled my new blog Life Alchemy to highlight the process of changing your state of being from one phase to another, just as the alchemists endeavoured to change base metals into gold and discover the elixir of life. I believe I have developed the mindset and discovered some of the methods and practices to living an elegant life, which I would like to share with you.

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Esperanza, a small coastal town in Mexico known for its natural beauty, community spirit and quality of life, is about to have its local ecology of fishing and tourism disrupted by a group of outsiders. As Esperanza’s pro-development mayor, and Natura, a major international environmental NGO, work to shape the town’s future, a bilateral war on drugs has provoked a turf war between rival drug cartels that threatens to consume Mexico. Can Esperanza preserve its traditional values, natural resources and local economy, or will it be destroyed by the corruption, greed and violence of a global marketplace where everything is for sale?

Read Chapter 1 of Bay of Hope