The Experiment on the Island of Angleland

by Terry Ray

Suppose you were offered a million dollars to spend ten years on a deserted, but beautiful, tropical island paradise? Plenty of fresh water and natural growing food and great fishing. Would you?

Here are a few more details, before you decide. This is a secret, off-book, experiment. It involves forty healthy subjects – twenty men, twenty women, between the ages of twenty-eight and thirty-two. Once the forty subjects are on the island, they will have no way of getting off and no way of communicating with the outside world. The subjects arrive with only the clothes on their backs. Not even shoes.

There’s more … The people running the experiment, own the island and its sovereignty. This means that the island is an independent nation, answering to no other country or authority. There are no rules or laws, except those made by the owners. They don’t make any. The island government is, thus, “Anything goes.”

There you have it: Deserted island. No rules, no laws. No government. Anything goes. Forty people. Clothes on your back. Ten years. No way off. Completely isolated. Completely on your own. Whatever happens … you deal with it. One million dollars.

Are you in?

Then let’s see how it goes …

Best of luck.

262 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 10, 2019

About the author

raised in a 4 room house near the steel mill where my dad worked; excelled at sports and fighting; got to college on a swimming scholarship; dropped out of college after 1st year (due to boredom) and went to Europe and somehow survived alone for a year; somehow graduated and was immediately sent to Air Force Pilot Training ; suffered severe injuries and spent six months in a military hospital; expected to die but disappointed the doctors; medical discharge as a disabled veteran; got M.Ed. and taught elementary school while going to evening law school; became a trial lawyer; decided to get into an honest profession and became a law professor; interspersed among these years I managed to be: a father of 6 boys (one deceased) and 3 girls and grandfather to 9 (# is still growing); a radio talk show host; a regular on a morning TV show, a candidate for US Congress; a stage actor and director; a member of a performing tap dancing troupe; an oldies singer; a bit part actor in the motion picture industry; a Field Investigator for the Mutual UFO Network and writer of a book on orange orbs (type of UFO)

At present, I am trying to decide what I want to do when I grow up. It will come to me one of these days.