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    Sea Monster
    Sea Monster
    Sea Monster
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    Sea Monster

    By Eric Douglas

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    Walking Bob, a local hermit, is hearing noises at night and is scared enough to break his routine. He leaves his island and comes to Withrow Key to let Jackson Pauley know about a “sea monster” out on the ocean. Realizing there is something scaring the old man, whether it is a sea monster or something more mundane, Jackson decides to investigate. Jackson recruits Randy Littlebear to go sea monster hunting with him and they almost run into more than they bargained for beneath the waves.

    This is the sixth Withrow Key thriller short story. Set on a bypassed key in the Florida Keys, life moves a little slower and a little weirder.

    Each Withrow Key thriller short story features scuba diving, adventure, boats, the ocean and mystery along with beautiful locations and scenery. Jackson Pauley and Randy Littlebear go hunting for a Sea Monster and are surprised by what they find is traveling through the warm waters around the Florida Keys.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEric Douglas
    Release dateOct 18, 2015
    ISBN9781310165771
    Sea Monster
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    Eric Douglas

    Life is an adventure for Eric Douglas, above and below the water and wherever in the world he ends up. Eric received a degree in Journalism from Marshall University. After working in local newspapers, honing his skills as a story teller, and following a stint as a freelance journalist in the former Soviet Union, he became a dive instructor. The ocean and diving have factored into all of his fiction works since then.As a documentarian, Eric has worked in Russia, Honduras and most recently in his home state of West Virginia, featuring the oral histories of West Virginia war veterans in the documentary West Virginia Voices of War and the companion book Common Valor.Visit his website at: www.booksbyeric.com.Eric talks about adventure and taking time to be creative, along with diving and writing, on his blog at www.booksbyeric.com. He would love it if you dropped by to say hello.You can also follow him on Twitter, get in touch on Facebook or through Google+. Lastly, you can always send him an email: eric@booksbyeric.com

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      Book preview

      Sea Monster - Eric Douglas

      Sea Monster

      A Withrow Key Thriller Short Story

      By Eric Douglas

      Sea Monster

      By Eric Douglas

      Second Edition September Copyright 2015 by Eric Douglas at Smashwords.

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      First Edition, Copyright 2012 Eric Douglas

      Sea Monster is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

      Any resemblance to actual persons. living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return it to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This is a Visibility Press original.

      All rights reserved.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      About the Author

      Chapter 1

      Walking Bob liked to be alone. He just wanted it to be quiet. He had been part of the world for a long time, but now he wasn’t any more. At least that was how he thought of it. Some people said he had gone crazy. He didn’t know if that was true or not. He just knew he had gone away. His name wasn’t really Walking Bob, either. When he first moved to the Florida Keys, the locals saw him walking everywhere he went. They didn’t know his name and someone called him Walking Bob. The name stuck.

      Walking Bob had found a small island to make his home, but he didn’t live completely off the land; he still had to go into town from time to time. When he did, he steeled himself up for a couple days in advance, convincing himself that it was, again, time. He took a little bit of his preferred medicine—the product of a small still he owned—and began the trip.

      To get to town, Walking Bob had to row his small boat from his island to Withrow Key. It was the next island over in the chain. Withrow Key wasn’t big, and there weren’t as many people there as there were in Key Largo to the north or Key West to the south, but it had what he needed. He would row to the little marina and walk the rest of the way toward what he thought of as the confusion. Just entering the shops and stores got him agitated from the noise and chaos. He ran his errands as quickly as he could, cashing his check and buying supplies, before he made his way back, almost at a run, to his boat and his home.

      His home. He didn’t own the land, but no one seemed to notice the tiny little island he occupied. It wasn’t big enough to build anything on. It didn’t have any commercial value. Everyone left it alone. Walking Bob was a squatter on the island, but he had been there long enough, he couldn’t really be called homeless, either.

      Walking Bob knew how old he was, of course, but he didn’t like to give too many clues to his past so he tried not to say. It was his

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