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    Beyond Black Belt
    Beyond Black Belt
    Beyond Black Belt
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    Beyond Black Belt

    By Emery C. Walters

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    Wren is a hardworking archaeologist on his first vacation in years. While he’s tempted to look for ancient artifacts, this is Maui and he needs to focus on taking it easy. So it’s off to the beach to relax.

    There Wren dives into trouble, literally. Luckily, the backward roll and breathing techniques he learned studying Ninjutsu saves his life, because the shore break called Satan’s Washing Machine grinds him up and spits him out, temporarily blinded and badly battered.

    A karate dojo owner named Steven takes him to a doctor, a pharmacy, and then back to the beach, only to find Wren’s car and all his belongings have been stolen. So Steven invites him home instead.

    Will their mutual love of martial arts lead to other a deeper relationship? Or will their shared desire for humbleness and respect for others keep them from falling in love?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJMS Books LLC
    Release dateJan 27, 2018
    ISBN9781634865395
    Beyond Black Belt
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    Emery C. Walters

    Emery C. Walters was born Carol Forde, a name he soon knew didn’t fit the boy he was inside. Transition was unknown back then, so he married and then bore and raised four children. When his youngest child, his gay son, left home, Emery told Carol that she had to step aside, and he fully transitioned from female to male in 2001.

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      Beyond Black Belt - Emery C. Walters

      Beyond Black Belt

      By Emery C. Walters

      Published by JMS Books LLC

      Visit jms-books.com for more information.

      Copyright 20187 Emery C. Walters

      ISBN 9781634865395

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      WARNING: This book is not transferable. It is for your own personal use. If it is sold, shared, or given away, it is an infringement of the copyright of this work and violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

      No portion of this book may be transmitted or reproduced in any form, or by any means, without permission in writing from the publisher, with the exception of brief excerpts used for the purposes of review.

      This book is for ADULT AUDIENCES ONLY. It may contain sexually explicit scenes and graphic language which might be considered offensive by some readers. Please store your files where they cannot be accessed by minors.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are solely the product of the author’s imagination and/or are used fictitiously, though reference may be made to actual historical events or existing locations. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Published in the United States of America.

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      Beyond Black Belt

      By Emery C. Walters

      I just realized I walked out with their pen. Too embarrassed to go back in, I stuck it in my pocket and looked around for my rental car, which, of course, was still back at the beach. My eyes hurt too much to drive anyhow, so I found the bench they’d mentioned, sat on it, and tried to figure out what to do.

      It was my first vacation in several years of being on my own. I’d graduated from U of M with a master’s in archaeology, actually found a good job, and a fun boyfriend, whose name was Mud, I mean, Bud. I’d been working my butt off ever since. While Bud was fun, he was also an alcoholic, a cheat, and a liar. It had taken me six months to get back to financial stability after we separated. Too bad, he’d really have enjoyed Maui, and I’d have had a friend here to drive me home.

      I’d finally had enough of him, started going to Al-Anon, and took up Karate-Do because I was starting to become afraid of him. After all that, he left me when he found a richer boyfriend. So there was no drama, no me going to the hospital, no dramatic domestic abuse police visits, nothing. I came home from work one day, and he, all his things, plus most of ours and some of mine, were gone. I sat down and wept with relief.

      How had I been so stupid so long? Probably came from my upbringing. My grandparents had been hippies; anything went, free love, sex, drugs. But their kids? Totally another ball game, so to speak. My parents were church goers, uptight, and by the damn book. Gay? Oh, hell no. Not in their family. I was born into the wrong generation, as so many of us were.

      At least they insisted I go to college and have a respectable career, preferably an out-of-state college I couldn’t come home from very often. God forbid, the neighbors.

      College gave me an education, all right, but no intelligence. That is, no street smarts or sense of self-worth. I only began to find that after succeeding early in my career, enjoying it, and from the non-physical lessons of karate. I studied Ninjutsu and enjoyed every minute. I discovered I could duck and avoid blows easily. I also could do a very good backward roll; forward not so easily, but back was harder anyhow.

      I loved my job in archaeology, especially the field trips when we’d go out to a dig or to an abandoned building. When we took children or even underclassmen from the college along, that was the best of all. I worked for a business firm but hoped to eventually go back to the university and maybe teach. I volunteered at the museum there, so I had that as a possible in.

      I’d combined my trip to Maui with a chance to explore some places here, too. My first target was a beach near the airport. It was the first day of my visit, the sun was shining, and I was absolutely carefree and ready for fun. There was an abandoned trainer plane at the beach I chose, left there from WWII when there had been an air

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