The second collection of short stories about Key West from the Key West Authors' Coop. More adventure and fun from the famous little island in South Florida. BEYOND PARADISE A Second Collection of Short Fiction from The Key West Authors' Coop Have you always harbored a sneaking suspicion that beautiful, laid back Key West just might have a seamier side? Let the down-and-outs, the old folks, the young hustlers, the Cuban refugees and the rest of the characters take you BEYOND PARADISE and find out what a struggle living in a tropical dreamland can be. Take, for instance, Molly and her friends, who will do anything for a cheap string of plastic beads; or King, who finds that one seemingly harmless breakfast toot can change the course of a man's life. For the memorable characters of BEYOND PARADISE, money is always short but indulgences are plenty, whether they be sunshine, liquor, cheap sex or a pleasure as simple as casting a line into the brilliant blue sea and hooking the big one. Many of the same writers, J.T. Eggers, Rosalind Brackenbury, Allen Meece, Robin Orlandi, Theresa Foley, William Williamson and Kirby Congdon, published in The Key West Authors' Coop's first collection, ONCE UPON AN ISLAND, return to delight their fans with more stories of life on the southernmost island in the continental United States. Whether you are looking for an afternoon's escape in the hammock under a palm tree, to take a literary taste of Key West back home with you or simply to enjoy good fiction, BEYOND PARADISE is guaranteed to satisfy. "There's a new school of writing afoot. It's called the Key West Short Story and you'll find many of its glories in the pages of this book." David A. Kaufelt Author of The Fat Boy Murders

Beyond Paradise : More New Fiction From the Florida Keys

Foley, Theresa

Meece, Allen

Key West Author's Coop

Cetacea, a novel from writer Theresa Foley, has been released by Sea Story Press. The novel is the story of a mysterious series of deaths that occur in the beautiful waters off of Key West, and the trio of locals - an adventurous woman who captains a dive boat, her tarot-card reading psychic roommate and an ex-Navy SEAL turned Duval St. bartender - who set out to solve the mystery behind the killings. Blame falls on a majestic dolphin, and while the town is up in arms trying to either get the dolphin or hush things up, Captain Mattie Gold takes it upon herself to find out what is really go on out there beyond the reef. 
Cetacea has been praised as "a fabulous debut by an exciting new author," by author Peter Shann Ford. "A ripping first novel, with a legendary, lethal, lonely hero whose stunning secret spans time, oceans and the essence of life. Theresa Foley writes with passion and vivid authenticity about deep sea diving, danger, dolphins and love." 
Rosalind Brackenbury, the well known Key West writer whose work includes Seas Outside the Reef and Circus at the End of the World, comments: "Theresa Foley has written a whodunit, a fast-paced story with a passionate plea at its core for the integrity of the natural world. The fate of the misused dolphin underlies the intrigues of the human characters, and one of the strongest voices in the book belongs to the mammal which thinks and feels as we do, but without the selfishness and greed." 
Cetacea is written in the tradition of new South Florida fiction, with Ms. Foley now claiming a place in the genre of highly popular writers that includes Carl Hiaasen, Laurence Shames, Les Standiford, and Elmore Leonard. Cetacea manages to blend local color and environmental issues with humor and good writing. This book will appeal to a wide audience, ranging from the reader who is looking for a good escape book as part of the vacation entertainment on the beach, to those who are concerned about humankind's impact on the sea and its wildlife, to anyone who embraces the idea that humans are mystically connected to all other life on the planet.

Cetacea

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Seastory Pr

The first short story collection from the Key West Authors' Coop. A classic that has never gone out of print. Highly popular with locals and visitors for the colorful pictures it paints of the legendary island. ONCE UPON AN ISLAND A Collection of Short Fiction, Poetry &amp; Non-Fiction from New Key West Writers Key West. A place for boat captains from hell, men and women prowling for love, the dreamers, the lovers, the wanderers. Paradise has many faces, many stories, many charms. This collection from 16 new writers will take you through the little lanes and back alleys, to the cemetery, into the shaded backyards of broken down Conch houses and out beyond the reef in a literary exploration of the invisible side of this famous little island. "Sometime these stories and poems talk and sometimes they sing...but the writing is always melodious and proves, once again, that Key West is alive and well in the writerly imagination. If you're interested in the literature of Key West, you can't afford not to read it." David A. Kaufelt Author of The Fat Boy Murders

Once Upon An Island

Literature & Fiction

Bowers, Barbara

Congdon, Kirby

Williamson, William

Adams, Judy

Crean, Kevin

Orlandi, Robin

Eggers, J.T.

O'Shaughnessy, Deanna

Bisztray, Margit

Hughes, Danne

Poetry

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