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Undercover Soldier Synopsis by Austin Mitchell Wareika Hills in the 1970’s was a hideout for many of Jamaica’s most notorious bad men. Several of these men work for Gus Mc Creed one of Jamaica’s leading drug barons. Mc Creed teams up with a Miami drug lord. Their plan is to use Jamaica as a transhipment port for hard drus fron South America to the United Stated\s. Bendoo is a Detective Sergeant of police. He does mostly undercover work. He is an obvious choice to go Wareika Hills and infiltrate the gang. He is sent for by his superior and briefed about the assignment. On the way to meet his superior he intervenes in a quarrel between Gus Mc Creed’s daughter and his foster son, Fred Billings. The plan is for Bendoo to grow dreadlocks, live in a community near the gang’s base and try to get in touch with a gang member. As luck would have it, some weeks after setting out on his assignment he meets one of the gang members. This man and Bendoo come from the same village but

The Magic Marble A short story by Austin Mitchel Kirk and Ricky were playing marbles outside their school gate one evening after school. Both boys were in Grade Five. They were about even as to who had won the more games. An old man approached them. It was the first time either boy was seeing this old man. They wondered which village, he was from. “Boys, I’m hungry. Help out an old man with some money.” “We don’t have any money,” Kirk replied, looking at the old man. The man’s clothes were untidy and looked to be in need of a good scrubbing. The man fished into his pocket and took out a marble. “This here’s a magic marble, you can’t miss with it.” “How much will you sell it to me for?” Kirk asked. The old man looked curiously at Kirk. “I thought you didn’t have any money.” “I’ll buy it from you,” Ricky told him. “For five hundred dollars, you can have it. As I said, you can’t miss with it. The marble is not to be played after six o’clock in the evenings. I

 THE DOWNTOWN MASSIVE by AUSTIN MITCHELL-Excerpt from Chapter Two Bobby Deacon lay relaxed in the hammock in his back yard when he heard the first shot and he fell out of the hammock   and lay still.             "The guy dropped out of the hammock. He must be on the ground," he heard one of the gunmen say. He pulled the Glock from his waist. It must be Shadow’s fighters, who were shooting at him. He crawled further into the bushes. Two shots came, aimed at the ground under the hammock. Where were Linkman and Markie? How had they let Shadow’s fighters get so near to him. He wasn't sure of the amount of men out there. But the two men could not be dead judging by the amount of shots he had heard. He saw a shadow   and fired and heard somebody scream.            "Hell, he shot me, Bobby Deacon shot me," the man was screaming. Bobby Deacon fired some more shots in the direction of the screams and was answered by more gunfire. Then another