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    Man Smart (Woman Smarter)
    Man Smart (Woman Smarter)
    Man Smart (Woman Smarter)
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    Man Smart (Woman Smarter)

    By Richard Daybell

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    Love, lust and loss, sex and skullduggery, conquests, failures, foibles – these are the elements of calypso, the stories in song that personify the islands of the West Indies. The three stories in this volume deal with lust in the Caribbean -- lust for another man's wife, lust for another man's yacht, and parrot lust.

    Man Smart -- Captain Petrullo is the proud, if not arrogant, commander of a 500-man army unit stationed in Passion Point. Each day he struts up Ponce de Leon Boulevard across Saltwhistle Street and back down Citadel Road. He nods with a certain aloofness to those who watch him in awe as he does his turn around the town at a pace that just hints at military precision. But when Captain Petrullo first sees Mireille, his military veneer goes AWOL, and he trembles as if he were the lowliest recruit in his own 500-man army unit. His passion decrees that he must have this beauty, even though she is the faithful wife of the mayor of Passion Point. Opportunity knock.

    Matilda -- Stealing a yacht is easy. That’s what Humberto and Odus thought, but they didn’t count on Matilda.
    Yellow Bird -- Antoine’s bird is a sassy, egotistical fellow, much like Antoine himself. Turns out the bird has good reason for his attitude.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard Daybell
    Release dateAug 3, 2011
    ISBN9781465777256
    Man Smart (Woman Smarter)
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    Richard Daybell

    Richard Daybell has been a writer/editor for most of his adult life, working at various times for a public library, a multinational corporation, a university, and state government. With his wife Linda, he also spent seven years as owner/chef of Churchill House Inn, a nine-room country inn in central Vermont.His short stories and short humor have appeared in regional, national and international commercial publications including American Way and Hemispheres, the inflight magazines for American Airlines and United Airlines, The New York Times, Buffalo Spree, Salt Lake City Magazine, and Tampa Tribune Fiction Quarterly as well as such literary magazines as Rosebud and Dandelion.Richard and Linda are now living in Lincoln, Vermont.

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      Man Smart (Woman Smarter) - Richard Daybell

      Man Smart

      (Woman Smarter)

      By Richard Daybell

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2011 Richard Daybell

      Matilda

      It couldn't have been easier.

      The Pooh-Bah's engine roared to life without protest, and Humberto negotiated his way past the other yachts attempting to outsway each other as a show of sovereignty over the Playa Marique harbor. Behind him, the Bacchanal Beach Club sleeping off a night of hedonism with a reggae beat became tiny and meaningless.

      Odus, useless as usual, lazed in a deck chair, dead to the world. But Humberto didn't need him at the moment, and he enjoyed the solitude. He stood at the wheel as though he were the very proud – and legitimate – owner of the Pooh-Bah, as she plied the now glistening water. He whistled a lilt he had learned as a child on the streets of a less cosmopolitan Caracas. When he delivered this fine yacht to Caracas he would be rewarded handsomely. This time he'd take a little vacation. Buenos Aires, maybe. Or Rio.

      Humberto's reverie was shattered by the appearance of someone who wasn't Odus – a young woman whose tousled blonde hair and oversized T-shirt suggested that until a few minutes ago she had been sleeping. She half glared at him through half-open eyes.

      Who the hell are you? demanded Humberto, his eyes very open.

      Who the hell are you? the young woman retorted.

      I asked first.

      I don't care. It's my boat. She paused. Well, it's Harold's.

      Who's Harold?

      None of your business. Get off this boat.

      Is that the son? She didn't answer. Or the father. You are a mistress to one of them, aren't you?

      You animal. Harold is my stepfather. It's his boat.

      Of course, said Humberto. I didn't recognize you all messed up like that. You're the daughter.

      Matilda, she answered. Now who are you?

      It doesn't matter, Humberto growled. I'm in charge here.

      Like hell you are. She rested clenched fists on her hips, yielding not a bit. You're trespassing. Just what are you up to?

      I am stealing your stepfather's boat. And why are you here? You should be on your way to the volcano with your mama and papa.

      I was with Ramon. He left and I fell – hey, this is none of your business. Who do you think you are? My nanny?

      Your parents, they will be worried. Damnit. They'll come looking for you, find the boat gone. I ought to slit your throat.

      You bet your sweet ass they'll come looking for me. The police, maybe even the navy, are probably after us already. You're ass is grass.

      Odus stumbled toward them, tucking his shirt into his

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