The story to the story goes like this…I wrote a short story titled, “Lights Out.” It was inspired from the question: What happens when the lights go out? It’s a story about a farmer and his family in Wyoming, grappling with this on an individual level. What caused the power outage? How long before it’s back? What’s going on?

It was a very satisfying story, I thought. But it then begged for a sequel. What happens next? So I then wrote the follow-up short story, called “Lights On.” And that of course led to the final chapter to wrap it all up in a neat little bow, “Lights Above.”

150 years ago we had no electrical power, and society and civilization went along just fine. But in modern civilization, what happens now if you suddenly lose it? These stories together were a sort of comment on the power of power, if you will, in modern day. 

The three stories together were no longer a short story. Properly, they formed what was now a short novel, or novella, deserving to be published and made available in a book format. So now that is done, and you can get your own copy from Amazon on the link below!

I’d love to hear from you personally about your thoughts, and reviews on Amazon would be very helpful.