They Call It Duppy Love
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ke’s new girlfriend is a bit eccentric. Or she could be an island spirit set on turning him into a giant crab. Either way, his friends have to get him away from Victoria before they lose him forever. Problem is, Victoria’s wise to them and is having none of it.
A Tale From Blacktip Island by award-winning novelist Tim W. Jackson
A Tale From Blacktip Island by award-winning novelist Tim W. Jackson
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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They Call It Duppy Love - Tim W. Jackson
They Call It Duppy Love
A Tale From Blacktip Island
Tim W. Jackson
Devonshire House Press
PO Box 195682
Dallas, TX 75209
Copyright © by Tim W. Jackson 2015
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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 Albedo One Issue 46, Summer 2016.
ISBN: 978-0-9910332-6-3
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They Call It Duppy Love
About the Author
They Call It Duppy Love
It was the summer the baby land crabs flowed red across the island, boiling up from the ponds, rustling through the dead leaves and scuttling across the lime rock roads in waves so thick you couldn’t move without crunching them underfoot. They clogged cisterns and drains, and the roads glowed crimson in