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I woke up on the wrong side of the bed today. Sunlight filtering through the crappy plastic blinds covering the window made its way into my brain, disrupting my dream. It was a good dream. I was in the middle of an impassioned debate with this annoying customer who always has something derogatory to say…
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This year I decided to grow a ‘bird poo / faerie garden.’ When I described the idea to my husband he responded as you would expect: “I don’t get it.” I admit that when telling the person who shares your home that you plan to lay out rocks and bricks in the grass and allow…
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I am fifty-eight years old, or at least I will be in November. I don’t feel fifty-eight. I don’t feel eighteen either, but it seems like a good comparison age. Eighteen is the age at which we start our adult lives (except legally drinking an alcoholic beverage), the age we emerge from the shadow of…
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I believe we all have the right to live as we choose as long as we don’t cause harm. No one has the right to tell someone who they are or who they should be, personally or professionally. This is true in our writing as well. No one has the right to dictate which stories…
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I have always been a daydreamer. I remember in grade school being reprimanded by a teacher for ‘never paying attention’ in class. She was right. I found my imagination far more interesting than arithmetic. I still do… It is easy to dream up a story. An idea comes into your head and if you allow…
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Are you tired of the violence that makes up the bulk of most post-disaster stories? Here is an account of four people who survive a disaster that focuses on world changes and personal experiences. Millions of American and foreign tourists visit Yellowstone National Park every year. They walk the boardwalks around the steaming geysers and…
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Have you given any thought to what you might need to survive a disaster? The internet is rife with websites dedicated to prepping for any event that could change life as we know it. What you should have to hand, how to protect electronics against an EMP, saving seeds to grow food, and multitudinous lists…
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Throughout recorded history are tales of animals predicting upcoming disasters. Elephants seeking higher ground before the arrival of Tsunami and domestic animals hiding or attempting to flee before an earthquake have been recently documented. Similar reports were written thousands of years ago. Whether through hearing, sensitivity to vibration frequencies, or awareness of barometric changes, animals…
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I started writing Return of the Sun in 1996 while living in Bozeman, Montana. I have a B.S. in Geology and was very aware of the potential disaster lurking in the south. As I imagined what it would be like if the Yellowstone hotspot erupted, a plot began to form. What if someone in Bozeman…
Literary Works of TM Allman 