June 30, 2016
11:45 p.m.
I wrote this little book last year, because I was challenged to do something science fiction-like. But, me being me, it really is about a woman who loves her family.
You see, I like a challenge as much as the next person. But as soon as I was asked to think of science fiction, I thought of abduction. And once that crossed my mind, I found myself in a "what if?" state of mind.
What if some strange set of circumstances took me far away from my family? What if there was no way to escape, and no way to communicate with them? How would I react? How long would I last before I went crazy or killed myself?
This brought to mind a lot of other scenarios, but I was grateful to have been presented with a science fiction challenge for this story. It was safer to explore this as an alien abduction, you know? The other course would be to examine an abduction by a human, and God knows that couldn't turn out well.
So I jumped into Beth Ann's shoes and explored the possibilties. Then I jumped into the aliens' shoes to try and figure out why...
I had some fun writing this, I'll admit it.
The book is available now at this site:https://www.createspace.com/6368727 It will soon be available as a paperback on Amazon. I hope you'll give it a try.
Of course, now comes the hard part: convincing you lovely people that it's worth giving a chance. And I'm not great at the self promotion thing. So I'm just hoping for the best, because once it was done, it was probably going to sit in my computer's document files forever if not for my son encouraging me to try this.
Come what may, thanks son!
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July 1, 2016
12:18 a.m.
Oh my gosh, it's July! Where has the time gone? Year's half over already!
It's raining out, and it smells really good out there. I know my roof is suffering, but I can't seem to care about that right now. I just want my lawn to get a good soaking, because it has gotten really dry really quickly.
Over the next few days I will be working on keeping my lawn wet, because apparently I live in the same neighbor as a few idiotic people who think lighting fireworks in city limits is a good idea.
There are rules, regulations--heck laws--in effect here that say they can't do it, but it's the same thing every year, and I live in dread that some damned fool is going to set my house on fire.
Yeah, it's a house with problems, but it's mine, and speaking as someone who has already had a home burn down, I do not want a fire!
No offense to the good old USA, but I am not fond of the 4th of July.
Rain all you want out there--I've got buckets!
Plus, my rose bush is really big this year! Hurray, rain!
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I'm going to watch some Walking Dead and then go to bed. You'd think it would give me nightmares, but I'm tough, man!
Good night!
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