Home Is Where the Horse Is

By NM Reed

On September 9, 2015, the Butte Fire broke out on a steep wooded hillside. It seemed to be under control. But the next morning, with changing winds and temperatures upwards of 105 degrees, the fire whipped out of control. With no warning, sirens were blaring, and the local police were telling them to leave NOW. Facing a wall of fire, they escape

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tattered Unicorn Publishing
• Release date: Aug 17, 2021
• ISBN: 9781955243605

NM Reed

NM Reed is a narrative and fiction writer who has run a small business for decades creating art and drums and performing live ethnic dance and music. NM Reed and her husband Whitney Lee Preston are husband-wife teams of SciFi fantasy and myth authors. Both have spent decades in the community of ethnic music and traveling historical theater. They participate and sponsor live role-playing games at a large science fiction convention in the San Francisco bay area each year. They now live in the mountains of the central California region on a small ranch with lots of books and animals.

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