Top Ten Ways You Know It's Not a Destination Island

1. When ordering a drink, those tiny paper umbrellas are replaced with tiny wool hats.
2. The local store for kids supplied their play sand for the beaches.
3. The movie theatre is showing Mary Poppins. From 1965.
4. The lone lifeguard is eighty years old.
5. There are no seagulls. They've left for better places.
6. When you pick up seashells, the undersides say "Made in China."
7. Locals say the island is hoppin'. There are five visitors. You included.
8. The island's bottled water comes from the marsh on the bayside. And it's "filtered for your health."
9. You arrive with emotional baggage and issues. You fit right in.
10. There aren't any swim-up bars, pirate-themed bathrooms, or the sounds of steel drum music playing 24/7. Instead there are fishermen who double as town historians, a hair salon owner stuck in the big hair of the '80s who is also a first responder, elderly women who call their house the Mother Ship, and a psychic whose shells surrounding her shack must not be touched. But you're there for nine months, for better, for worse, in sickness and in health, till sanity do you part.

The above is a snippet of what my book, Looney Dunes, is about. It gives you, the reader, an idea of the tone, or voice, of the story. Today, December 2nd, it's on sale for only $2.50 at Musa Publishing. All other days, it can be purchased for only $4.99. (It also can be purchased at Amazon.com or other eReader sites.)