title: Super Storm Super Moon: A Tale from the Sea
author:  Leslie Stolfe 
description: Leslie Stolfe is a long time Long Beach Island vacationer. After her first visit in 1982 she fell in love with the island and introduced many of her family members to its magical atmosphere. Leslie finds extreme beauty in things that many people take for granted and although she's constantly questioning the universe, she tries to live according to the ideal that each day on this amazing planet is a miracle. Finding different ways to express herself gives her life joy and meaning. Shes happiest in her kitchen baking treats for her friends or when shes being artsy-craftsy scrapbooking, painting or writing. She lives with her rescue dog Moxie in upstate New York.
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  Envy
  
  Sandra Brown
  
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  [“Envy” Prologue](Envy_split_044.html#filepos1140691)
  
  Key West, Florida, 1988
  
  Saltines and sardines. Staples of his diet. Add a chunk of rat cheese and a
  Kosher dill spear and you had yourself the four basic food groups. There
  simply wasn’t any finer fare.
  
  That was the unshakable opinion of Hatch Walker, who had a sun-baked, wind-
  scoured visage that only a mother gargoyle could love. As he munched his
  supper, eyes that had blinked against the sting of countless squalls squinted
  narrowly on the horizon.
  
  He was on the lookout for the lightning flashes that would signal an
  approaching storm. There was still no sign of it here onshore, but it was out
  there somewhere, gathering energy, sucking moisture up from the sea that it
  would send back to earth in the form of wind-driven rain.
  
  But later. Above the harbor, a quarter moon hung in a clear sky. Stars defied
  the neon glare on the ground. But Hatch wasn’t fooled. He coul