First off, I don't write fiction. However it occurred to me that what I've been writing about lately is difficult to get our heads around. Climate change is really happening in today's world, and at the risk of hyperbole, it really is end of the world type stuff. I needed to find a way to break it down to the indivdual level. That thinking, and some natural curiosity about the New Madrid fault lin e got me thinking about how easily things could go bad for a society if a series of natural disasters hit in rapid succession. Thanks to this writing prompt, something started to form in my head. Please keep in mind that this is the first draft and it deals more with the themes I'm hoping to explore. It does not have a current title. So without wasting time...here we go. The world, at least as most people understood it, ended on a rather ordinary Tuesday afternoon. I remember it was a perfectly ordinary da...
Can the City Mouse adjust to life in the country? The day to day adventures of a "city boy" in rural PA trying to adjust to things like chopping wood, growing his own food and dealing with the horrors of the complete lack of a decent Chinese restaurant.