Tag: Morgan's Road

Short Story: Morgan’s Road by Torn MacAlester

Mor­gan’s Road a short sto­ry by Torn MacAlesterMorgan’s Road, a short sto­ry by Torn MacAlester Graph­ic by Shan­nan Albright Mak­ing a liv­ing on the Moon is not for every­one, but Nel­son Carmike actu­al­ly pre­ferred the air­less basalt plains over Earth’s windy prairies. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, three years of Moon prospect­ing left him pen­ni­less, and with­out funds for […]

Morgan’s Road: A Short Story by Torn MacAlester

Mor­gan’s Road a short sto­ry by Torn MacAlesterMorgan’s Road, a short sto­ry by Torn MacAlester Graph­ic by Shan­nan Albright Mak­ing a liv­ing on the Moon is not for every­one, but Nel­son Carmike actu­al­ly pre­ferred the air­less basalt plains over Earth’s windy prairies. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, three years of Moon prospect­ing left him pen­ni­less, and with­out funds for […]

Science and Technology in Morgan’s Road

Being a sci­en­tist and engi­neer, I enjoy adding as real­is­tic ele­ments as pos­si­ble to my sto­ries.  For exam­ple, I wrote this arti­cle to dis­cuss the sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy that I ref­er­enced in writ­ing the sto­ry Mor­gan’s Road. Sci­ence of Mor­gan’s Road. There are cer­tain­ly some spoil­ers in that arti­cle. If you haven’t read Mor­gan’s Road, […]

Thunder Moon Tussle and Morgan’s Road

Timeline of events

  Among oth­er things, Nils Carmike is a sto­ry teller.  This is some­thing his friend Mil­ton finds ridicu­lous. This pro­vides the back­drop for Thun­der Moon Tus­sle by Torn MacAlester https://twitter.com/authors_ol/status/1433862373446725633?s=20 Take a look at one of Nil­s’s favorite sto­ries: Mor­gan’s Road by Torn MacAlester. Then read the sto­ry that Nils did­n’t tell:  Thun­der Moon Tussle […]

Free Short Science Fiction Story by Torn MacAlester

free short science fiction story by Torn MacAlester: Morgan's Road

Free short sci­ence fic­tion sto­ry: Mor­gan’s Road by Torn MacAlester Mak­ing a liv­ing on the Moon is not for every­one, but Nel­son Carmike actu­al­ly pre­ferred the air­less basalt plains over Earth’s windy prairies. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, three years of Moon prospect­ing left him pen­ni­less, and with­out funds for sup­plies he was doomed to face a forced flight […]