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The following is an excerpt from a novel about a man in mid-life crisis who hooks up with a much younger woman who is coming from her own crisis.  More excerpts are found in midlife crisis and at the author’s website.

“~Argad dee means good air in Thai.”  Unaware of any impending crisis in Phuket, Lyra fished her fingers into the same drawer of the antique occasional table.  She deposited her passport and took out a zippered manicure kit.  “~You say that about nice weather.”

The mid-life mother and daughter had lived in many places in the world, but currently they were in Phuket and the climate was superb.  A jewel on the coast of Thailand, the city of Phuket was an electromagnet for sun-seeking mid-life tourists.  Phuket was also near perfect for Lyra’s mid-life mother because where mid-life men in mid-life crisis came for relaxation: they also wanted women for extra-marital relations.  Another plus to Phuket was a reliable supply of drugs filtering out of the Golden Crescent region in the north.  The longer into her mid-life she had remained addicted—the closer Jinder had drifted to the pure source of the quality product.

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Will I ever read the mid book in the trilogy?  For her life’s story so far, ‘The Two Towers’ represented a father she didn’t know and the mother who wouldn’t talk about him.  Lyra sat on the tile floor and used a file to shape her mother’s toenails while the junky prepared an injection.

Life for the two was as good as it could be.  They leased a small house on Phuket’s beautiful Patong Beach but unbeknownst crisis and turmoil was on the near horizon.  The crisis had naught in common with either the two wizard’s towers in Tolkien’s fiction or even the World Trade Center skyscrapers.  This life-shaking event was a portion of the Indo-Australian tectonic plate suddenly rupturing and bolting under the Eurasian one.  A trench dropped into the floor of the Indian Ocean creating a shock with a magnitude of 9.2 on the Richter scale.  Over 200,000 would die on the Indonesian Island of Sumatra alone, as today was December 26 of 2004.

More of this tale of mid-life crisis will be forthcoming.