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The Kind Cloud Farm Rebellion (Day 3)
a novel (a page a day for as long as it takes)
Day 1, Day 2
*This was the very first novel I wrote. I started it in 1999 and finished the first draft in 2003. After several years of failed attempts to shop it around to literary agents and publisher I finally gave up. I still think it is a good first novel, so I’ve decided to share it here on Medium. Enjoy!
Chapter 1 (Day 3)
If not for the tunnel blasted through the center of Mt Vasquez by some very confused would-be gold miners in 1875, Trajico Bay would have remained a nine and a quarter mile tract of wild and unpopulated land bordered by a bay filled with a jagged reef. The miners, thinking they would discover another Sacramento Valley goldmine followed a dry gulch to the base of Mt. Vasquez digging and dry panning as they went. Frustrated at the lack of gold they found in the gulch, they used dynamite to blast a winding tunnel through the mountain all the way to the other side mining as they went, but found nothing. But when they saw the pretty little pocket of land with its towering Sequoias, shapely evergreens, and the lush meadow filled with dark green and golden grasses interspersed with flashes of colorful wild flowers they forgot about gold and turned their thoughts to building a town. Not seeing the majesty of the Sequoias, but only an…
