Morocco Stories

Blake's eyes flutter open, and in his vision he sees nothing but an endless expanse of golden sand. He sits up, rubbing his temples, trying to recall how he ended up in the middle of a desert. The last thing he remembers is talking to his friends, Mindi, Juliah, and Keith, about the Chergui, a strong Moroccan desert wind that could reduce visibility to almost zero. He'd been so fascinated by the stories of this phenomenon...

Bogart and Bergman in Casablancanever left the backlot Kerouac and Ginsberg in Tangiers where Allen discovered America and Jack his desolate angels Crosby, Stills and Nash on the Marrakech Express but only one rode the train through the night Fagen and Becker and The Fez borrowed a dildo from Burroughs lunch Canetti had his voices and his prize Homer had his monkey's paw from the Medina in Marrakech Where Orwell wrote an...