Writers Harbor

Category: Auto-biographical

  • Cops & Robbers (7A) “A Deadly Search “

    A Deadly Search If you ever spend any time in Search and Rescue, or any type of First Responder involvement, you will experience tragedy. The unnecessary tragic. Needless death. The pointless waste of human life, talent, ability and potential. I had already seen good men stuffed into disinterested, uncaring body bags, and neatly zipped up.…

  • Cops & Robbers (6) “About to fall off a Mountain “

    About to fall off a mountain It was the end of a hot sticky, day, and I was on the short drive home. I’d put the Sheriff’s helicopter back in the hangar, locked up, and departed for the day. Or so I thought. I was idly listening to Dispatch, when a strange call to the…

  • A Blip on the Radar (Part 29C) Hotel Excelsior

      A Blip on the Radar Part 29(C) “Hotel Excelsior ” Hotel Excelsior, Manilla, Philippines June 1997 For once I was a passenger. Flying back to the Tuna Fields, via scheduled airline to Fiji and Papua New Guinea. With a layover for one night at Manilla. On the approach, gazing down from my comfortable seat…

  • A Blip on the Radar (Part 29B) An Old Sailor’s Poem

    Photo: Advocates for Human Rights A Blip on the Radar Part 29B: An Old Sailor’s Poem I remember reading a poem, written by an old seaman. An old tuna fishing captain. In it, he reminisced. About the old days, when Yellow Fin tuna were so large, that the sailors working the nets below the nets…

  • A Blip on the Radar (part 29A) The Hookers are coming

    Photo: Jorge A Blip on the Radar Part 29(A) “The Hookers are coming “ I remember one night, in port, in Guam. I was standing quietly alone, away up on the helideck, above it all, just taking in Nature. The dark sky, the lights of Guam, the hustle and bustle on the working decks below,…

  • The Oystercatcher, who silently cried out for help

    with thanks to KT Silvershark The Oystercatcher, who silently cried out for help (For Joanne) Back in the early nineties’ I went through one of Life’s rough patches. As happens, often enough, with all rough patches is that you think your world has ended. Finito La Musica. Nothing will ever be right again. It’s all…

  • A Blip on the Radar (Blip# 35) “Die with the Dolphins (2) “

    A Blip on the Radar Blip# 35 “Die with the Dolphins (2) ” Surrounded and blinded by bubbles, he thought only of his mouthpiece. Experimentally, he sucked air, and relief flooded through him as his lungs expanded normally. The bubbles occasioned by his mighty splash entry abated a little, and now he could see that…

  • A Blip on the Radar (Blip 34) “Die with the Dolphins (1) “

    A Blip on the Radar (Blip# 34) Note: although this is part of my draft for a novel, it actually truthfully describes an experience I went through. Everything is factual, including the outcome… DIE WITH THE DOLPHINS (novel excerpt) He had heard the Fishmaster’s shouted ‘Let Go!’ in the distance, through a haze of sleep,…

  • A Blip on the Radar (Part 27B) “The Quiet Observer “

    A Blip on the Radar Part 27 (B) “The Quiet Observer” One day we were told (by a displeased Captain) that we would be receiving an official observer on board ship, who would be making a trip with us. The news was greeted with annoyance by the ship’s officers, and by mild curiosity by the…

  • A Blip on the Radar (Part 27A) “Musing about Mother Earth “

    Photo by Wayne Sutherland A Blip on the Radar Part 27A: “Musing about Mother Earth “ A) Environmental issues Most people are vaguely aware of the many threats to our little planet home we call “Earth”. Depending on your outlook, you care a lot, a little, or not at all.It’s hard sometimes to even begin…