The Thrillbilly Magnet
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I walked into the cigar shop on August 1, 2005. … Since I had just arrived there, I didn’t know exactly what kind of people called this place home. My cousin warned me not to move there. She had contacted me in Spain and told me the population in this particular beach town consisted of only junkies, hookers, and trailer trash. She tried to talk me into moving to Cocoa Beach, near her own home.
I thought to myself, “I have lived everywhere. Nowhere can possibly be as bad as she is describing this place.”
I am not shocked easily. I have lived in the bowels of Mexico and Amsterdam, and nothing bad has ever touched me. Yet despite my confidence, I was about to experience how right my cousin was …
There was a miniature Ducati motorcycle on the sidewalk outside the door. At the time, I owned a miniature Harley Davidson that was always in the way. My guitar player had given it to me for Christmas when I lived in Spain. I had so many keepsakes from my life of adventure that I was on a mission to get them out of my house and distributed to their new rightful places. I was honestly running out of room, and so I thought that this cigar shop would benefit from using my bike as a physical advertisement, serving the sucker yuppie cigar smoking crowd.
Little did I know, I had just entered the “insane cracker zone.”
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Meet Ruthie (née Ruthless): a world traveled rock, blues and jazz singer who has relocated to a new country, and when I say new country, I mean accents and chicken fried steak ‘n BBQ red neck style country.
She just wants to relax and relocate on account of the economy taking a dump in her other world. Ruthie just wants to ride, drive, sing and find Mr. Right. The brochures advertise this place as a paradise for someone with her interests so she goes for it. She moves across the ocean lock, stock and Harley to find a crazy new world she had no idea existed.
The only good looking guy named Beau, in town, tries to intrigue and romance her. The situation is not as it seems at all. Ruthie finds herself in a dangerous and draining predicament that seems almost impossible to get out of. The man who is in love with her is not who he says he is. He lives a secret double crispy fried life that finally catches up with him in this sleepy little beach town and makes her life very complicated and very unhappy suddenly as she unravels the truth about him. The two faced truth.
Luckily her powerful dear friend shows up with a quick change of plan to try to rescue and take her out of there and to where she is able to still accomplish her dreams and not end up the way Beau had planned for her since she kicked him to the curb. Beau’s obsession is Ruthie. But Ruthie is Ruthless too.
About the Author
Annie Love is a gypsy biker. She rides all over the world on her bike, encountering many people and listening to their stories. She has documented her whole life through multiple mediums: photography, film, art, and writing. She has written many short stories about her travels and meeting interesting folks. Her whole family were natural born jokers and story tellers. With all the crazy things she hears, sees and experiences, she is able to weave unusual stories together to help folks experience the dangers and insanity that lie out there in the unknown that they wouldn’t normally see. This story was based on a series of true events. She has a sticker on her bike that says, “When going through hell, just keep going.” Fasten your seat belt and listen to Big Engine Band, Tom Petty, and Keb Mo as the soundtrack as you read this wild story that winds down a turbulent roller coaster through a dangerous and wild adventure about dating. Annie has always been a fan of and inspired by the writers Hunter S. Thomson and Tim Dorsey, who writes specifically about Florida.