WHO IS WILLIAM THOMAS?

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

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BLUEWATER

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.

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ARAAK & EE-EK

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

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SAVING SMAANTHA

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...

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BUBBLES

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

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LEE & LINCOLN

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.

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SPASIBA, MY LOVELY

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.

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WE ARE SAILORS

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

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FIRST SOLO

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

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FIRST SAIL

Join me on my first solo sail. I mean my first sail ever. Don't be shy. What could possibly go wrong?

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