Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Time Travel:    FIFTY YEARS AGO The fingers a...

Time Travel:    FIFTY YEARS AGO The fingers a...:     FIFTY YEARS AGO The fingers and brain go into slow-down mode when the 95 year mark is reached.   But ...

   FIFTY YEARS AGO

The fingers and brain go into slow-down mode when the 95 year mark is reached.   But sometimes a project must be finished. This story began half a century ago.

In 1972 The Alternate Safe World of Sanctuary was written as a Letter to the Editor.  The need of many became apparent and the letter grew to a book.

A town was built in the deserts of Arizona for anyone who needed help, a safe haven, with no questions asked. Evangeline rode a bus on a quest to find her lost son. Hurdles appeared and she climbed over them, sometimes slipping, but never losing sight of her goal.

I traveled to New York to publish. They told me, “We’re doing nonfiction this year.” The book went on the closet top shelf until 2013 when I published on Amazon and Kindle with modest success.

Evangeline stayed by my side. Several times the story began again – how would Sanctuary manage when the internet threatened its existence?

By chance I read an old book: Plague by Albert Camus.

And in 2022 I returned to Sanctuary. A deadly strain of Plague could be changing their lives.

How would Evangeline and her descendants handle disease, rebellion and the past when the front door slammed shut.  Would there be a Phoenix when the door opened? A follow-up story brings survival skills to the Arizona desert.

Here are my last two books (one a revision).

1. THE ALTERNATE SAFE WORLD OF SANCTUARY – REVISED 2022

2. RETURN TO SANCTUARY – PLAGUE

Amazon and Kindle     Eight books  --  https://amzn.to/36fWoQO

For ninety years, I’ve enjoyed waking up each morning with the next chapter of a story always there. The stories remain, but the body has run out of steam.

I hope you enjoy my stories even half as much as I’ve enjoyed writing them, Mariam Cheshire

p.s.  When you go on Amazon to check my books, note that three are on sale -- almost half price!  This is an Amazon sale and I don't know how long it will last.