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I am a computer programmer in Marin County, California, with a wife and a teen-age son. Most of my writing is in the realm of speculative, nautical, and science fiction, as well as some poetry, memoirs, and scientific and philosophical essays. In addition to my short fiction, I have written two novels: Toki, a historical novel about the South Pacific kingdom of Tonga, and Isildur, a Tolkien-style fantasy. My stories have been published in the print magazines Bust-Out Stories and Paradox Historical Fiction, and the online journals Slow Trains, e-clips, Clean Sheets, Sedona’s Attic, and Oysters and Chocolate, where my story The Heat won a $500 Grand Prize. My short-short story Heart to Heart won Honorable Mention in the Whim’s Place 2006 Flash Fiction contest, and The Find won Second Prize in their 2007 contest.
I hope you enjoy my stories and would appreciate any comments or suggestions you might have.
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Print: $10.00 Download: $3.75 In 1968 Brian Crawford was a traveling hippie. Busted for peyote in South Texas, upon his release he went searching for his guitar, girlfriend, and stash box, and found them in Fort Worth, along with a wonderful community of Texas hippies. Three illustrations.
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WaranaWarana (book)
Print: $12.50 Download: $3.75 In 1973, American hippie Brian Crawford signed on as navigator of the Australian nuclear protest yacht Warana in the Kingdom of Tonga. With a crew of misfits, they sailed to Fiji, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, and Australia, then took part in the 1973 Sydney-Hobart open ocean race. Filled with interesting characters, nautical adventures, and exotic locations in a more innocent time. Twenty-five illustrations.
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Print: $13.50 Download: $3.75 Fourteen very unusual and diverse stories by Marin County author Brian K. Crawford. From the desert to the South Pacific, from the creation of life to a space-traveling future, from an intimate conversation with a dead wife to the “loopy” nature of time, these stories will inspire thought and wonder and remain in your head long after you put the book down.
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PeyotePeyote (book)
Print: $10.00 Download: $3.75 Six hippies in a 1947 red Cadillac ambulance head into the desert southwest in search of the magic cactus. They encounter Navajos, Mexican peasants, the INS, vigilantes, and Texas hippie wannabes. A true story of the hippie days.
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Print: $10.00 Download: $3.75 My twenty months in the "para-naval" group The Summerland Pirates in the early seventies. The group bought and sold military equipment to raise money to buy a schooner in Nova Scotia and sail it to the Caribbean to search for Spanish treasure. Eighteen illustrations.
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Print: $14.50 Download: $3.75 Ten stories on a variety of subjects, including:
E Pluribus Unum - A multi-generational starship approaches its destination. Is the crew ready to land on their new planet?
The Case of the Red Herring - Dr Watson mentioned a Holmes case about a politician, a lighthouse, and a cormorant. Now the story can be told.
The House - A man brings his wife and son to see the house he grew up in.
The Luck of the Irish - three convicts escaped from Port Jackson colony are apprehended by a Royal Navy frigate.
The Classic - a young actress meets a young man who knows way too much about her.
The Old One - the last day of the last mammoth.
The Dreamer - a man drifts through a beautiful dream - but what is a dream?
Eternal Flame - a middle-aged man goes to a concert and sees his old college girlfriend - still twenty years old.
Coyote - an Indian medicine man confronts his apprentice who has gone astray.
Eight East - a young hippie, busted for drugs, spends a week on a mental ward.
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TokiToki (book)
Download: $3.75 Hardcover Print: $30.00 The true story of William Mariner, a 15-year-old English boy who was captured by the Tongans in 1806 and lived there for four years. Extensively researched and annotated. Includes a glossary, bibliography, and appendices. Hardbound edition.
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Print: $19.72 Download: $3.75 The true story of 15-year-old William Mariner of England, who was captured in Tonga in 1806 and lived for four years with the King of Tonga, Finau 'Ulukalala. Paperback edition.
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PeyotePeyote (book)
Download: $5.00 Hardcover Print: $21.00 This hardcover edition also includes the subsequent adventure "Fort Worth". Brian Crawford was a twenty-year-old hippie, hitch-hiking around the country sampling every psychedelic experience he could find. One day in Boulder, Colorado, he met a mysterious stranger with something new – peyote, the magic cactus.
With his girlfriend Elissa, the bizarre and paranoid Mike just returned from Vietnam, Sara the seductress, and fellow travelers Sean and Chris, he set off in a red 1947 Cadillac ambulance in an odyssey through the southwest in search of the places where peyote was rumored to grow. They found what they were looking for, and more.
Threatened by vigilantes, busted by Immigration, he and Mike spent a week in jail and met and educated some of the local kids. In the process, he learned as much about himself as the strange world of the psychedelic cactus. Later, he was taken in by a gentle commune in Fort Worth and became part of the local hippie legend. Three illustrations, 160 pages.
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Print: $15.00 Views of Marin County California taken by Brian Crawford
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