tip-toed out of the
bedroom to search for an old analog radio I knew I had stashed
somewhere. It was a fact that none of our own digital radio
stations were transmitting. Mexico was only a few miles away.
Perhaps their antiquated analog stations might still be
broadcasting.
The batteries checked out and I set the receiver on
scan. I was right. Music. And chatter.
I couldn’t contain myself. I ran into the bedroom and
yanked the covers off the bed. I hesitated, and took a good look at
the naked woman sprawled on her back in our bed. I contemplated
pulling the covers up and climbing in beside her.
Instead, common sense returned. There was no time for
us to waste. I placed the radio on the bed, turned up the volume,
and waited while Caitrin slowly woke up.
We were going to be heading south, down Mexico way. I
just knew it. Already I could picture us together on a beach on the
Baja Peninsula. My only question was, would it be the east side, or
the west?
Caitrin’s arms reached for me.
—We don’t have to leave right this instant, do
we?
###
More by Peter Duke
Twisted Sisters
Detective Jim Nash has a problem. He has a
murder victim in an alley and a dead woman in his bed. His own
homicide division wants to charge him with murder. To say he’s got
serious commitment problems would be an understatement. He's on the
lookout for twins, but he doesn't want to date them. He wants to
know who murdered them. A modern pulp short story.
Dreams Die Fast
Frank is headed home after spending a long
winter on the Baja. When his motorcycle breaks down, he’s trapped
in an old ghost town on the west side of the Salton Sea. A woman
takes pity on Frank and invites him over for a home-cooked meal.
Before he knows it, Frank is knee-deep in cartel drugs with a woman
itching to pull the trigger on the gun she’s pointing at his back.
Dreams Die #1.
Dreams Die Hard
Frank is back on the road with a reformed
junkie on the run from a cartel hit squad riding bitch on the back
of his motorcycle. When the duo end up working at a strip club, the
seedy edge of the city finally catches up, forcing Frank to dig
deep within to triumph over drugs, greed, arson and murder. Some
adult content. Dreams Die #2.
Fast Food Slow Waitress
A biker hits all the high spots (or the low
spots, depending on your point of view). These short stories find
him at a peeler bar off the 15 in Montana; encountering a
hitch-hiker off the 10 in New Mexico; being sweet-talked by his
landlady; romancing a truck-driving sweetheart in a sleeper at a
California truck stop; flirting with a waitress in a restaurant in
the high desert. This is an updated and revised version of First
Time and other stories previously published.
Dead Reckoning
During a well-deserved R&R on mainland
Mexico, Harry picks up something he doesn’t own that forces him to
flee across the Sea of Cortez to the Baja. While hiding out on an
isolated beach, two mysterious gringas show up to complicate
Harry’s life by attempting to implicate him in their own scheme,
resulting in a mad dash up the Baja to escape the consequences of
their actions. First short novel in the series.
Long Way Home
When Harry’s ex-wife, Sasha, and their
daughter accompany her oil-company boyfriend on a working vacation
to Africa, the trio goes missing. They get out a call for help that
will lead Harry on an air and ground chase across the Horn of
Africa to rescue his family before kidnappers can move them to
their den on the Indian Ocean. Second short novel in the Dead
Reckoning series.
Payback
Harry’s comfortable family life is turned
upside down when he gets a phone call from a former comrade he
thought long dead. When the second call comes in an hour later, the
caller asks for his help. He knows his life will never be the same
until he can learn what happened to the woman who launched a rescue
mission to save his life after his plane was destroyed during a
firefight on a bush
bedroom to search for an old analog radio I knew I had stashed
somewhere. It was a fact that none of our own digital radio
stations were transmitting. Mexico was only a few miles away.
Perhaps their antiquated analog stations might still be
broadcasting.
The batteries checked out and I set the receiver on
scan. I was right. Music. And chatter.
I couldn’t contain myself. I ran into the bedroom and
yanked the covers off the bed. I hesitated, and took a good look at
the naked woman sprawled on her back in our bed. I contemplated
pulling the covers up and climbing in beside her.
Instead, common sense returned. There was no time for
us to waste. I placed the radio on the bed, turned up the volume,
and waited while Caitrin slowly woke up.
We were going to be heading south, down Mexico way. I
just knew it. Already I could picture us together on a beach on the
Baja Peninsula. My only question was, would it be the east side, or
the west?
Caitrin’s arms reached for me.
—We don’t have to leave right this instant, do
we?
###
More by Peter Duke
Twisted Sisters
Detective Jim Nash has a problem. He has a
murder victim in an alley and a dead woman in his bed. His own
homicide division wants to charge him with murder. To say he’s got
serious commitment problems would be an understatement. He's on the
lookout for twins, but he doesn't want to date them. He wants to
know who murdered them. A modern pulp short story.
Dreams Die Fast
Frank is headed home after spending a long
winter on the Baja. When his motorcycle breaks down, he’s trapped
in an old ghost town on the west side of the Salton Sea. A woman
takes pity on Frank and invites him over for a home-cooked meal.
Before he knows it, Frank is knee-deep in cartel drugs with a woman
itching to pull the trigger on the gun she’s pointing at his back.
Dreams Die #1.
Dreams Die Hard
Frank is back on the road with a reformed
junkie on the run from a cartel hit squad riding bitch on the back
of his motorcycle. When the duo end up working at a strip club, the
seedy edge of the city finally catches up, forcing Frank to dig
deep within to triumph over drugs, greed, arson and murder. Some
adult content. Dreams Die #2.
Fast Food Slow Waitress
A biker hits all the high spots (or the low
spots, depending on your point of view). These short stories find
him at a peeler bar off the 15 in Montana; encountering a
hitch-hiker off the 10 in New Mexico; being sweet-talked by his
landlady; romancing a truck-driving sweetheart in a sleeper at a
California truck stop; flirting with a waitress in a restaurant in
the high desert. This is an updated and revised version of First
Time and other stories previously published.
Dead Reckoning
During a well-deserved R&R on mainland
Mexico, Harry picks up something he doesn’t own that forces him to
flee across the Sea of Cortez to the Baja. While hiding out on an
isolated beach, two mysterious gringas show up to complicate
Harry’s life by attempting to implicate him in their own scheme,
resulting in a mad dash up the Baja to escape the consequences of
their actions. First short novel in the series.
Long Way Home
When Harry’s ex-wife, Sasha, and their
daughter accompany her oil-company boyfriend on a working vacation
to Africa, the trio goes missing. They get out a call for help that
will lead Harry on an air and ground chase across the Horn of
Africa to rescue his family before kidnappers can move them to
their den on the Indian Ocean. Second short novel in the Dead
Reckoning series.
Payback
Harry’s comfortable family life is turned
upside down when he gets a phone call from a former comrade he
thought long dead. When the second call comes in an hour later, the
caller asks for his help. He knows his life will never be the same
until he can learn what happened to the woman who launched a rescue
mission to save his life after his plane was destroyed during a
firefight on a bush
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