Two and a Half Weeks

By Tim W. Jackson

Caribbean dive guide Gage Hoase woos and wins a beautiful dive guest, then sends her packing. All is good until Gabi returns, with happily-ever-after in mind. Now Gage has to figure a way to let her down gently before she offs him in his sleep.

A Tale From Blacktip Island by award-nominated novelist Tim W. Jackson

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tim W. Jackson
• Release date: Jan 14, 2014
• ISBN: 9780991033256

Tim W. Jackson

Tim W. Jackson's first taste of scuba diving came at the age of six when he sneaked breaths off his dad's double-hose regulator in the deep end of the pool. Later, as an ex-journalist armed with a newly-minted master's degree in English, he discovered he was qualified to be a bartender, a waiter or a PhD student. Instead he chose Secret Option D: run off to the Cayman Islands to work as a scuba instructor and boat captain by day and write fiction at night. Two decades later, he still wishes that was half as interesting as it sounds. Or even a quarter . . . Jackson is the award-winning author of the comic Caribbean novels Blacktip Island and The Secret of Rosalita Flats, as well as The Blacktip Times humor blog. His "Tales from Blacktip Island" short stories have been published in literary journals worldwide. He is currently concocting his next Blacktip Island novel and still enjoys scuba diving with his dad's old double-hose reg. Feel free to stalk Tim on his website, www.timwjackson.com, the Blacktip Times (www.blacktipisland.com) or follow himon Facebook (Tim W. Jackson) and Twitter (@timwjax). A portion of the proceeds from his stories goes to the Nature Conservancy's Coral Reef Preservation Fund.

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Two and a Half Weeks

A Tale From Blacktip Island

Tim W. Jackson

Copyright by Tim W. Jackson 2014

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental. The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.

A version of this story was originally published in The MacGuffin Volume XXX, No. 1, Fall 2013.

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Two and a Half Weeks

About the Author

Two and a Half Weeks

Gage Hoase was in a jam. Gabi was back for two and a half weeks and they were perfect together. If he had any doubts, he could ask her. Or wait five minutes for her to tell him again.

It had started innocently enough. Gage, new to Blacktip Island, running from a tinderbox relationship and an explosive break-up. Watching the other