Loss Of Reason, Miles A. Maxwell [electronic reader txt] 📗

About Miles

Long before 9/11, Miles used to lie in bed at night in his apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side — just across the park from where Cynthia, Steve and Melissa would be living — and listen to the sirens. Wondering when someone would drop the Big One on the City . . . wondering how the millions of survivors — if there would be any — could possibly escape, the city government itself encouraging twenty-four hour personal survival kits — food, medicines, other critical essential personal items. See: Preparing for emergencies in New York City.

As time went on, whenever Miles would leave the City for a day or so for one reason or another, he would return with a creeping, growing, building sense of dread. Driving toward that beautiful skyline, he would look at the skyscrapers and think, Is this the day?

He stuck with the City; it was his home. But to excise the paranoia, he spent his spare time writing the beginnings of this story: Loss Of Reason . . .until one night some homeless person stabbed a ballerina to death a block away from his apartment. It was a small, solitary death in the scope of thousands who die in the City every year, but he took it as a sign. He never knew her, but the attack felt close, personal. It was time to get out.

So he moved west. Out to the Rockies, to the desert, where he no longer felt trapped by the masses. Where the sky was open and the air was clear. Where he could see the horizon simply by walking outside. It took six months to recover as the paranoia slowly left him.

Was it paranoia? Like all Americans, he watched television that terrible day the Twin Towers rumbled down, with a horror that would have been sheer terror had he stayed. Not as a pinnacle of terrorism in the City, but with the expectation of things much worse to come.

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The State Of Reason Mystery was not created quickly, but carefully. Plotted, crafted and edited — over not weeks or months — but a period of fifteen years. A friend once told me, “Great Books aren’t written, they’re re-written.”

With that in mind, once I became financially independent, I spent nearly every waking moment (and a lot of dreaming moments as well) for more than fifteen years, working full time on writing these stories, the people who inhabit them — Franklin, Everon, Cynthia, Victoria, Samua and the others (some not yet Revealed) — the places they go, the things they do. Studying languages, religions of the world, economics, history, philosophy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, aviation and psychology. I hope you have one of the best times of your life reading the four that are available now (including the prequel), with more to come.

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Miles A. Maxwell, out of Cheyenne, Wyoming, is an IFR certified private pilot, speaks bits and pieces of ten languages, surfs, skis, sails and scuba dives.

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