About CHACO by Peggy A. Wheeler
When everything you count on for your existence fails, could you survive?
Within days of a series of monster solar storms slamming into earth, electrical grids fail and everything in the northern hemisphere with a computer chip ceases functioning. Electricity won’t be completely restored for at least a decade, and the result is that everything modern life depends on to function is gone. There is no way to pump gas or water. Cell towers are wiped out, along with satellites. Airplanes and most vehicles will not operate. Communication is practically impossible. People cannot access life-saving prescription drugs or food. Police, fire services, and the military are overwhelmed, and hospitals can’t cope. There’s no one to come to the rescue, and as mass panic ensues, people begin dying. Fear and violence escalate until society collapses.
An unlikely hero emerges.
Chaco is a well-educated freedom fighter on a death list in El Salvador. Having fled to the United States, he is in hiding by working for a wealthy couple as their handyman and gardener. Following the disaster, he reveals his true identity, and convinces his employers and their neighbors to follow him over brutal mountain passes to a self-sufficient commune nearly 800 miles away.
But only a few will survive.
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Author Bio:
Peggy is a writer of fantastical fiction. She’s published under the names Peggy A. Wheeler, Peggy Wheeler and Peggy Dembicer. Her non-fiction articles have appeared in COLORADO SERENITY, MOUNTAIN CONNECTION, and, LLEWELLYN’S 2012 MAGICAL ALMANAC. Her poetry and short stories appears in a number of small press magazines and women’s anthologies including WOMEN WRITING THE WEIRD II: Dreadful Daughters, by Dog Horn Press. Her publisher is Dragon Moon Press in Canada.
Her B.A. in English Literature is from U.C.L.A.; my M.A. in English with a Creative Writing emphasis is from California State University at Northridge. While attending U.C.L.A., Peggy was one of only twelve students (and the only undergraduate) chosen to study with Robert Pinsky, former Poet Laureate of the United States. She won first prize awards for two poems from an Evergreen Women’s Press nationwide poetry contest. Peggy’s poetry received honorable mentions from the judges of a Los Angeles Poetry Festival and The Academy of American Poets. Her poem Du Fu was nominated for a Rhysling award for Best Science Fiction Poem. Her debut novel, The Raven’s Daughter was short listed for a CCC Best Novel award, and her book, The Splendid and Extraordinary Life of Beautimus Potamus recently won a Reviewers Choice Award from Audio Book Reviewers. Peggy has led adult poetry and fiction writing critique groups and workshops in both Colorado and California.