Today, with the release of Chapter 14, brings an end to book one. Martin and Susan finally make it to his home in New Hampshire. Below is the embedded player from Podbean. It’s supposed to show all 16 of the…
With Chapter 14, Book 1 is Complete
Author: Mic Roland
Wandering Hen, Errant Eggs
One of my hens has taken to laying her eggs somewhere other than the coop’s nest boxes. This isn’t allowed, for obvious reasons. She has to be ‘broken’ of her attachment to her new nest site, but it has not…
Chapter 5: New Dawn, New Direction
After a night of sleeping in the woods, Martin and Susan venture through Stoneham looking for food and water but find little. What they do find is a populace lingering in normalcy bias. Even though it is only the second day of…
Chapter 4: A Ride to the O.K. Corral
Martin and Susan’s hitchhike ride up 93 gets stalled in traffic. Opportunist criminals take advantage of the situation traffic to rob the stalled motorists. Martin thinks it better to avoid the trouble by walking around it in the woods. The…
Seed Saver Challenge: Cabbage
Bi-annuals like onions and cabbage are a challenge for seed saving because they don’t make seeds until their second year. While it is more involved than simple annuals like tomatoes, beans, corn, etc., it can be done. Where to Begin…
Chapter 3: No Room at the Inn
Martin tries to help Susan find a hotel to stay in. The trouble is, everyone else wants a hotel room too.
Chapter 2: Good Deed Quagmire
Here is Chapter 2. The audio files are hosted on Podbean (as in the “listen now” link below.) The episodes do show up in Apple’s Podcast (web) and the app. It is supposed to show up in Google Podcasts too.…
Book 1 goes audio! Here’s Chapter 1
For those with no time to read, this is the first chapter, in podcast/audio form of Book 1.
My Newest Book Released on Amazon
Escape From The City My most recent release on Amazon is something different for post-apocalyptic survival fiction. This story is set several generations in the future. It started with a thought experiment. What if some future world government forced everyone…
Got Chicks! The Broody Hens Deliver.
This past Tuesday Broody’s eggs started to hatch. She had two up and cheeping around. Sumo, the other broody hen, wasn’t supposed to start hatching until Friday, but she had a couple hatched on Tuesday too. Then, I remembered that…