The Other Side of Winter

As they cut the mooring ropes, Kaamil shouted, Humiliating and hurting non-believers has the blessing of Allah. The small boat fell unpredictably with the stern leading the way towards the choppy waters below. It labored to upright itself in the swirling ocean waters. The men on board were tossed about violently and one man was thrown overboard. The others were able to pull him back into the lifeboat. Laughter from the pirates could be heard over the noise of the waves slapping against the lifeboat. The lifeboat rocked about in the swirling waters, turning and bobbing among the tall waves until it could no longer be seen from the Atlas.

Larodean Duhon was born in Edgerly, Louisiana, in 1938. He was a middle child in a family of eight boys and three girls. The family moved to Westlake, Louisiana, when he was eighteen months old. He lived there until finishing his formal education. He then entered the US Air Force. While in the USAF, he served a year on Ascension Island, where they built a missile-tracking system for the future space program. After the Air Force, he attended Tarrant County College, where he won the Wall Street Journal Award for scholastic standing. He began a successful engineering career, where he was the principal designer for telecommunications for Texas Stadium and assistant designer for the Dallas, Fort Worth Airport. He wrote several articles for Telephony and Telephone Engineer and Management as well the Master Builder Magazine headquartered in Kingston Jamaica, WI. He is currently retired, living with his wife of fifty-four years in Southwest Georgia.