Contents
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- Medusa in the Backseat
- On the Beach
- Sweet Tea and Negative Ions
- The Bi-Valve
- The Morning Pool
- My Books and My Buddy
- The Return of the Ornamental Hermits
- The Pull of Old Tides
- “Down and Dirty” with a man called Dorothy
- Tojo’s Daughter
- The Salvage Consultants
- Miz Julee’s Island Cookery, Mixology, and Mental Self-Defense Tips for Not Going to Seed in the Sun
- Finding Raven
- A Visitor from Home
- Dark in the Sun
- Coastal Access
- Former and Present Inhabitants
- An Imaginary Reunion With the Natalies
- Beyond the Sea and Into the Brush
- “Days Like This”
- The Revolt at Ocean Place
- The Myth of Paradise
- The Divine Dali
- Bad Boys and Beaches
- At Home with the Surfing Radiologist
- The Circle of Life
- The Blue Rose
- States of Emergency
- The Grief Group
- The Clock
- Epilogue: On Allergen Island