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After years of keeping my career as security professional separate from my garden blog – lest I be seen as a girly lightweight – I found myself with no place to share the non-gardening, non-security, original fiction that I’ve been working on for the last few years.  I refuse to start yet another website for that. 

It’s time to pull myself together!

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Catherine retires to a farm on the southern side of Mt. Wachusett. She starts to use an old fruit cellar to grow winter greens under LED lights. As the weather grows more and more unpredictable the cellar becomes a refuge. She invites neighbors and friends to shelter with her and...

The story is told from the viewpoint of her great-grand daughter, who has known nothing but the survival colony under the mountain and who has to find the courage to deal with her own changes. 

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