Now that the Christmas break is over, it’s time to resume the Siege of New Hampshire story. Yesterday, I posted Chapter 1: Awakening.
Book One, as you know, if you’ve listened to the podcasts, was essentially a ‘get home’ story. Martin’s Plan B to walk home had to be revised to include Susan. They had their share of challenges and adventures along the way, but at the conclusion of Book One, he made it home.
The trouble for Martin, of course, is that the outage that prompted him to walk home is still there. He had seen empty store shelves and gasoline shortages on his way home. There would be empty shelves and no gas once he got home.
Not to dabble in spoilers, but Book Two is then the story of how the Simmons family cope with this “new normal.” And, it’s not just the Simmons family having to deal with a grid-down world. It’s all of their neighbors, the whole town, and the whole state.
The Simmons family is not the stereotypic prepper family with all the just-right supplies put back and all the just-right tools handly. They were an ordinary sort of rural household. They were accustomed to a measure of DIY mentality and adapting.
Yet, they, like most all of their neighbors were caught off guard by the outage. With the stores picked clean and no new food coming, they all face the prospect of going into winter with only the supplies they had onhand when things went down.
If you haven’t found the podcast on Apple’s Podcast, Google, Podbean or your preferred podcast app, below is the embeddable player from Podbean. It only shows the 14 most recent posts, so if you’re looking for previous chapters (of Book 1) that aren’t shown, you should be able to click here to go to the Podbean page directly.
Buy Me a Coffee?
Not to get too self-promotional, but I’ve set up a page at buymeacoffee.com so listeners who enjoyed the story would have a way to throw a couple bucks my way. I’m still sorting out what the perks of montly membership will be. I have some ideas but I need to sort out just how I go about them.
So, if you like the story, you could ‘buy me a coffee’ as a show of thanks. Keep me caffeinated and at the keyboard! 🙂
Thanks!