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Alma had been raised in what was called a backward area of the country. The family didn't care what others thought. They lived the best they could and survived through war and peace. War seemed to be happening more and more. Family members taken in the middle of the night. That is what happened to her beloved husband Micah. She thinks of this as she totters up to the graveyard. She is now an old woman and her husband lies up here with many family members. Their family has used the standing stone hill for over 300 years. It's sunset and the sun is shining on the large standing stone. She ...

Saturday morning seemed like any other Saturday. I had many projects going but wanted to finish the flower and vegetables beds. I was happily digging away when I suddenly found myself falling through some kind of hole. It ended up being some kind of cave. I looked up and saw a shimmering film over the hole I fell through. What the heck! The light was enough to look around and see if I could find something to use to climb out. I spied an oval object and went over to investigate. It turned out that it was a huge egg. I’d say 12 to 18 inches tall and about the same around. It was almost ...

World War III is past by three decades. The fight to relearn the old ways is a continuing problem. Roving gangs and slavers are still a never ending plague on the land. Duke and Lottie Stanley have done their best to be off the main paths to keep hidden. But it hasn’t worked and they have had to run. Now they find themselves burned out and having to start over. They head back to their old home only to find themselves not wanted by his older brother and trouble is afoot with unknown criminals in their midst. That's if they can survive getting to the fort. Duke and Lottie must find who told...

Meet Louise Snow Bellamy who was orphaned at 17 years old and has been on her own ever since. She inherited her home, enough insurance money to pay the taxes and go to a vocational school. There is enough money to carry her through unless inflation gets any worse. After three years she is doing her best to finish her courses for a Professional Electrical license. Into her life walks Fillmore, a dashing, smooth talking Adonis that takes her breath away. He is not what he seems but he has convinced her that he is a homebody and is in love with her. Her worst nightmare has just begun. The ...

Have you ever wondered what would happen if the “world as you know it” would suddenly change? Sara, Dave and her family are about to find out. Follow along as this large family learns how to keep body and soul a live and as they find out who is friend and who is foe. The people living in this new world have to relearn many things the way their ancestors did them, and also to build and to trust each other in all situations. Earthquakes and Volcanoes have erupted across the country. Death and gangs stalk the land. Families head for home to survive, or anywhere there is safety. Some will ...

Tracy Lee McWhorter stood in amongst the huge old growth pine trees staring at it all in amazement as there was no way these trees should be here. His old house should be right here in this very spot next to this creek. He thought back to a week ago; he hadn’t believed what he had been told when his grandmother finally got a hold of him. He hadn’t answered her calls or even listened to her phone messages for days on end after they started to show up on his cell phone. After all, what could really be that important? It took her contacting the police and having them do a check on him to ...

Wilma (called Willy) had no idea why her father had kept her away from his place of birth or the family mine. It just wasn’t discussed. Ever since she was a young teenager, he had stopped taking her to help him in the family gold mine, on her summer vacations. The mine didn't produce very much but it helped. After the passing of her father, the mine was now hers and she wanted to go check on it. Once she and her fiancé pulled in, she found someone had broken into the main tunnels and was stealing from her. Her father admitted just before he passed that those relatives in the nearby town ...

Sallie grew up in a small town in N. Wisconsin. The new great depression was hopefully was coming to an end. Darren and her met at the lake and seemed to hit it off from the start. You would think you would know someone after dating for 3 years. But it ended up not the case. She had overlooked more about his personality than she should have. The clues had been there all along. Him being self-centered was only the beginning. After they married it was even worse. How she ended up sitting in a cage with other captives near the Boundary Waters in Northern Minnesota is only part of it. Her so-...

Croft and I had planned to move to dad and moms place in Arizona but we were going sooner than expected. I had inherited their campground after mom passed. The camp had cabins and plenty of space. Our so called forever place here in Washington state was sold and we were really going. We were meeting up with my husband’s cousin Clark and Gin and they were following us. We had all watched our country change for the worst, day by day, law by law. The criminals were in charge and they were hiring people right from the gangs on the mean streets and right out of prison and replacing not only ...

Wendy is quite young, she also doesn’t know how unique she is. She has found herself left all alone in a world gone haywire and upside down. War has ravaged the land and left no one unscathed. Everyone she has known has either left, been kidnapped or killed. Despicable men and women seem to be the ones that rule the world she lives in. So far the lessons she has remembered and her wits are all that have kept her alive to live through each new day. Will she survive to find where she belongs and any of those she has lost?

Many years have been passed since America and indeed the whole world suffered a financial and societal breakdown. People have had to form communities and battle not only bandits and other raiders but an ever building out reaching tyrannical new government entity; ever striving to enslave its people for its own ends. Sari lives in this mad world and has seen the death of the world she knew but also her loved ones and continues to battle those that seek her destruction. She was trained by her soldier father and has an inner core of strength, common sense and wisdom beyond her, that people ...

Chrissie had so much to learn and needed to try to make a go of it here on the farm by herself. Her husband had left her for an upscale life, leaving her behind. He’s the one that they insisted on living here. After a while she had grown to love being out in the country and having animals. She had come up with what she thought was a great plan to keep it. It’s just some very strange things had begun to happen. On the other side of the world a mad man is in control of the greatest invention in history. This machine can control weather but mostly it creates storms, massive deadly ones. ...

LeeAnn Calhoun finally had her home and clinic built and was getting ready to get married. Her dreams were coming true. After a stint in the Marines and then veterinarian school. Life was buzzing along pretty much just as she hoped. She had plans. She just didn’t know that those plans were going to change almost instantly in one day. Never would she have dreamed her life would be full of killers of one description or another. Life didn’t stop changing then either. The Knight Clan would be in her town soon, pretending they are something they aren't. They are without mercy and ruthless, ...

Rose is a headstrong young woman. Her brother had brought word to the ranch that strangers were in the valley below them. Her curiosity got the best of her and she just had to see them. The next thing she knew her head was bagged in a very smelly bag and she was thrown over a horse. The Hun's have her. Death has stalked the world and few have survived. A quick swift flu hit without warning except to Gilbert Wolf and his blood brothers. His vision was very vivid of the dying time. A few families have gathered together to survive and through the years have prospered and spread out. Invaders ...

The bombs are dropping. The cars and equipment of the modern world are stopping. Families that have separated across this large country will struggle to keep body and soul together. These families will need to join with others to survive the coming weeks and months. Will they find people to trust and be able to ward off attacks of those that wish to control them and become the Kings of this new world? Just getting to different destinations where they will be able to survive is questionable, at least for some of the far flung family. The world had gone down a deep hole, now will the people ...

Funny how we take so much for granted as children. We feel like nothing really changes. Our parents will always be around to help us to learn and grow. Until they aren’t and all we have ever known has vanished including our place on the planet. We and that means our whole world had been taken captive. I wonder if I am the only living member of my family. I Blossom Susanna Water Rider who only goes by Garbage 338 on this slave farm has found out a terrible truth and must get out to the other worlds its deadly consequences. It could mean life or death to them as well. How many have already ...

Leena Jo Atwater complied but only to a point. The brainwashing never worked on her. She had been kidnapped for a new program set up by the government. She along with thousands of other minors. She had done what her father told her to do. Before leaving her home, Lenna was allowed to say goodbye to her family. She was taken from her home at 11 years old. Her dad Sy had whispered in her ear to recite the family motto, plus who you are, who we are and where you came from. Anything about the family that helps you remember. After years of life in the Reclaimed Childre’s Home Guard on a real ...

Where in the world was she and how did she get wherever this is? Now what was she going to do? Ruby didn’t know what she was going to do with being alone? Tracy her son had left for the big city life vowing never to return. Ever since Orion his father had died on the road one night he had gotten more and more distant. She and her husband Orion had been re-en-actors of 18th and 19th century living and arts. They had loved the old ways and even went into teaching it. Now Ruby made quilts, soaps, lotions and other things to sell over the internet. With the way the economy was going she was ...

The Second Great Depression is upon Pat and Martin Bloomfield; they have worked hard to put food on the table and help their neighbors. It isn’t just the financial problems but also the rules and regulations against medical help or medicines for the common man. Slowly they have lost all communication with the outside world. No way to email, call or even write their children or anyone else. They both wake one morning having had strange dreams and hearing a quiet voice telling them they are to prepare to be a refuge. The veil between the seen and unseen world is ever thinner. Get ready.

Silver was born into a world trying to climb out of the destruction of what was the modern world. Early into the 2030’s between, war, civil strife and a CME (Coronal Mass Ejection), that circled the globe for days, the world pretty much had to start over. Her grandparents were young when it started and had collected many things the family would need in the future. Mostly information and learning. During Silver’s parents time things did get a little easier and a few conveniences coming back on line did help. If you wouldn’t see a biodiesel or a methane vehicle once in a while you would...