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The life and times of William Thomas, photographer, writer, bluewater sailor, environmental activist

After departing Vicrtoria, BC in September 1978, this bluewater sailing saga depicts Celerity's passage from San Diego to Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands in 1979.

Here is an imaginative story of aerial combat between two pterosaurs over Fossil Beach, Hornby Island, 22 million years ago.

In this short story we meet "dorable" Samantha, a compassionate angel and a friendly doggie from Tau Ceti. Samantha wants to know if they've come to save the Earth...

Riffing on a hypnogogic Dreamstate, this future story invented itself.

This is my imaginary account of the first meeting between General Robert E Lee and President Abraham Lincoln before they went on to formalize the South's surrender at Appomattox in 1865. Please don't skip my Author's Notes. They were ripped from my heart and are all too relevant today.

This poem imagines the first "demonstration" launch of an Oreshnik hypersonic missile against a weapons factory in Ukraine. Because of the late hour, there were no reported casualties from its six kinetic warheads.

From our earliest beginnings... we are sailors. Follow the first waterborne migrations across the Bab el-Mandeb Strait 100,000 years ago.

What's it like to take an airplane aloft at the age of 16? Strap in!

My first solo sailing adventure was also my first sail ever. Hop aboard. Don't be shy. What could possibly go wrong?

What would happen if vikings of old landed in a bay near you? We can only imagine...

In this fictional account, an off-planet mining shot goes horribly wrong. The AI judge's sentence for the father who killed his daughter is even worse.