A Better Time, A Better Place
Holton Roberts, his wife, Dot and their son, Jake have been living since the forties on Pigeon Plum Key, a small private island a tenth of a mile offshore from the chain of islands that make up the Florida Keys. Their idyllic Conch life, fishing, turtling and trapping crawfish and stone crabs is shattered one morning when they learn the other families living on Pigeon Plum Key has sold out to a developer who wants to build a resort and marina on the island.

Holton is offered a huge sum of money for his property, but being the cantankerous old man that he is, he tells the attorneys representing the developer to go to hell and refuses to sell his homestead. Jake can only watch the pain and anguish on his aging father and mother�s faces as they try to go about their daily chores knowing their life on Pigeon Plum Key is about to drastically change for the worse and there is nothing they can do about it.
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A Better Time, A Better Place
Holton Roberts, his wife, Dot and their son, Jake have been living since the forties on Pigeon Plum Key, a small private island a tenth of a mile offshore from the chain of islands that make up the Florida Keys. Their idyllic Conch life, fishing, turtling and trapping crawfish and stone crabs is shattered one morning when they learn the other families living on Pigeon Plum Key has sold out to a developer who wants to build a resort and marina on the island.

Holton is offered a huge sum of money for his property, but being the cantankerous old man that he is, he tells the attorneys representing the developer to go to hell and refuses to sell his homestead. Jake can only watch the pain and anguish on his aging father and mother�s faces as they try to go about their daily chores knowing their life on Pigeon Plum Key is about to drastically change for the worse and there is nothing they can do about it.
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Holton Roberts, his wife, Dot and their son, Jake have been living since the forties on Pigeon Plum Key, a small private island a tenth of a mile offshore from the chain of islands that make up the Florida Keys. Their idyllic Conch life, fishing, turtling and trapping crawfish and stone crabs is shattered one morning when they learn the other families living on Pigeon Plum Key has sold out to a developer who wants to build a resort and marina on the island.

Holton is offered a huge sum of money for his property, but being the cantankerous old man that he is, he tells the attorneys representing the developer to go to hell and refuses to sell his homestead. Jake can only watch the pain and anguish on his aging father and mother�s faces as they try to go about their daily chores knowing their life on Pigeon Plum Key is about to drastically change for the worse and there is nothing they can do about it.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940016456133
Publisher: Poetscrib Publishing
Publication date: 04/01/2013
Series: Some Came First , #10
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 15
File size: 283 KB

About the Author

William Williamson is the author of SOME CAME FIRST and SOME CAME AFTER, the first two novels of his Florida Keys trilogy. The final novel, SOME CAME NAKED has a publication date for 2015. His short stories have been previously published in three Key West anthologies, Once Upon an Island, Beyond Paradise and Mango Summers featuring new Key West authors. He is also the author of a collection of short stories titled, Jack, Beans and Muffins and seventeen books of prose poetry.


Bar Snatch
Tonight We�re Serving Insanity for Supper
A Mere Miscellany of Midnight Madrigals
Millennium Maladies
Sixty Nine Poems on a Sundog Day
A Killing Frost Falls Down Tonight
Last Call, Selected Bar Prose
After Hours, Selected Bar Prose Vol. II
A Madness is Within Reach Inside of All of Us
A Murmur Escaped from her Lips as his Hands Traced her Hips
Accept No Presents And Give No Pardons, a Poet is on his Own
At Odds with the Flavor of the Union
First and Last Impressions from the Lost and Found
Forgotten Notes from Nights of Ill-gotten Grandeur
Last Night of the Orphan Poems
Redundant Ruminations of a Hand Well Stroked
You�ll be my Monkey and I�ll be the Proudest Palm Tree
You ever Seen

William�s books are available in both paper and as E-books
at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com.

To read more of William�s work,
visit William Williamson.com and Poetscrib.com
Check William out @Facebook.com

William Williamson was born and raised in the Florida Keys where his family has lived in Key West and Islamorada for over a hundred and fifty years. Though proud of his Conch heritage, William currently resides in St. Augustine, Florida. Between writing fiction and prose poetry, working on completing revisions to SOME CAME NAKED, the third novel of his Florida Keys trilogy, following SOME CAME FIRST and SOME CAME AFTER, William, enjoys time with his son, Brandon, taking care of his botanical garden and koi ponds while raising two green iguanas with his adorable wife, Cocos.

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