Charley leads a comfortable life with her best friend and perfect match, Michael, a man with whom she shares two lovely pet children (canine and feline), and a home in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. She’s fortunate to have a caring and supportive family, and two amazing friends, Inez and Becks. Professionally, she holds a secure position as editor of a respected healthcare magazine. Her life is settled, as is her future.
Acquiring this existence of hers hadn't been easy. For at least twenty years she felt like a wind-up toy, methodically following preprogrammed rules—step one ... step two. She even imagined herself as a minuscule, but essential, cog inside a big machine with the mechanical brain. No matter what she tells herself, it hasn’t helped since another thought flutters through her mind as frequently: Going through the motions is the same as coasting toward nothingness.
It is 2025, the time is right. Technology, in a rapidly advancing world, makes it possible to reimagine the future by recreating the past or, more aptly, by creating another past.
Charley must either embrace her well-earned, sedate lifestyle, or invite a change that could alter her future irreversibly. It's a difficult decision, one that could destroy all she has endeavored for, turning their life not only upside down, but backwards, forwards, and inside out.
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- Blue
- Smell of lilac
- Peonies
- Happy animals
- Jane Austen
- Pink Floyd
- Reading a good book
- Scotland
- Lord of the Rings movies
- W.H. Auden poem, Stop all the Clocks
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Raised in Chicago, she relocated to the Pacific Northwest where she currently lives with her husband and three beastly, furry children.
She is a writer of fiction and poetry and the internationally published author of Regeneration X.
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ReplyDeleteI contemplated fate, reading this. The concept of changing the past, to the character's thought about "going through the motions.." - I identify with each.
Is it pointless; to just keep repeating a same course of life? At nearly 27, having lived hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of cycles, I certainly now feel that way.
I didn't get the trajectory of life, which I desired out of The Representative (referring both to "changing the world", and getting the usual industry treatment).. But, nonetheless, I did still get a ground-breaking story, involving planets, and a power struggle over a resource; I did still get a "United States satire", coming up with one of sharpest and most profound story points.
I did still get Croyan, and Mariel.
You have the right attitude, Thomas. It's about why we write and anything else is gravy.
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