Let me start off by introducing myself. My name is Jim and I’m 18. I’m OK-looking, I guess, but I hadn’t had much luck with girls before this story took place. Oh well. My dad is an international banker and he travels all over the world (especially Asia, Europe, and Latin America) all the time. I guess I’m lucky because sometimes when he has to go on a trip during the summer or spring break he lets me and my mom (I don’t have any brothers or sister) come along. Anyway, last summer he had...
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Don’t Panic
The small island of Trikinos, just off the coast of Greece, has been inhabited for many thousands of years, but humans have left very little mark on it. The soil is too rocky and sterile to support large-scale agriculture, and separation from the mainland has encouraged the use of the local gray stone for building, so that from a distance the island’s single village, Skirna, blends seamlessly into the harsh, unchanging landscape. The people of Skirna have always made their living from the sea; the men leave early every morning in shallow, wooden boats, and...
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