Peek behind the curtain: Sometimes the contrast between being stuck at home in Monterey California where the pandemic is raging and the idea of writing an imaginary travelogue is just too much. I want to really travel, to really take … Continue reading Wovoka’s Birthplace and a Ghost Dance
Jenny’s Report: Long drive this morning back to Reno. We hate to leave the Black Rock Desert behind. It seems to have lifted Lisa’s depression and cleared our minds a bit. But my brother needs his truck back and Lisa … Continue reading Reno Heartbreak
Lisa wakes first and crawls out of her sleeping bag. Jenny has her pillow over her eyes. She’ll sleep late, Lisa knows, she’s done that ever since they were kids. Lisa always hates the first couple of mornings camping. She … Continue reading Guru Road to Solider Meadows, Black Rock-High Rock Nevada
Celebrating Freedom Day Jenny woke to a beautiful day for the drive out to the Black Rock Desert, the first day of their great adventure. Jenny chose this day because it would have been Lisa’s wedding day. After all, she … Continue reading On the Road to The Black Rock
Jennie and Lisa still want to camp in the Black Rock Desert this summer, even though Burning Man is canceled. They can’t agree on how to prepare for it though. Jenny wants to do some serious planning. She’s working on … Continue reading Getting Ready for the Black Rock Desert, Minus Burning Man
Hey Lisa, Let’s get going. Jenny yelled up from the parking lot in front of Lisa’s apartment. Lisa leaned out over the railing, still in her pajamas, hair dirty and tangled. I’m coming. That truck, your brother’s? Yup. Come on … Continue reading Let Pyramid Lake Wash Away Tears
We’ve been stuck at home for months now. I’m getting a bit stir crazy. Missing Nevada, the state that mostly made me what I am today: A lover of the wide-open spaces, the big sky, the cloud-shadows as valleys and … Continue reading An Imaginary Road-trip in the Age of Pandemic
An excerpt from the novel I’m writing set in Reno in 1975. It will be a while before I finish it because I don’t really know where it will end up. I’ll post occasional excerpts as I go. Hope you … Continue reading At the Buffet – Reno Fiction by Suzanne Stormon
A Poem by Ken Adams and a Reflection by Suzanne Stormon. I don’t know anyone else like Ken, the way he brings the past of his family into his art and his writing. The absolute way he is a carrier … Continue reading I Had a Brother
An Online Series By Mark Stormon From a miner with the soul of a poet, here’s a story about what it’s like to be a wildcat hard rock miner on a perfect Nevada day. Episode 2 – Sensuality and the … Continue reading Life on Buffalo Mountain