Words, so many words, piling together to make stories. More Carolina Coast and Isaac's House stories are in the works, as is one set on a boat in the Sea of Cortez.  Poems and books and thoughts and living. So much fun. 

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SURVIVOR by Reza Fazelli (as told to yours truly)

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Back in 1996, Reza Fazelli asked me to write an action memoir of his two escapes from Iran. When he first contacted me, he called himself a freedom fighter. I remember telling a friend, "An Iranian terrorist wants me to write a book for him."

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Instead of being the terrorist I imagined, Reza was a delightful ex-pat who'd fled from both the Shah's armies and from Khomeini's thugs--and who'd lost friends as well as his eldest son in the process. He was a fighter for freedom, a famous actor/director/producer whose work caught the attention of the Ayatollah--and almost cost Reza his life.

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The writing took too many years, and Reza died before he was able to fulfill a contract for the Farsi translation, but I was very glad to call him and his family my friends.

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I used a pseudonym on the cover because of the fatwa on Reza's head.

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