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Image credit: EelKat Wendy C Allen and Marcy in front of No Hurry in Old Orchard Beach, Maine August 2013

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Works by Wendy C. Allen

For Fear of Little Men (2010) 2 copies

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Legal name
Allen, Wendy C.
Other names
EelKat
Wyldes, Gwendolyn
Anoone, Gwyneth
Birthdate
1975-08-13
Gender
female
Nationality
USA
Birthplace
Maine, USA
Places of residence
Old Orchard Beach, Maine, USA
Education
self-educated in public libraries
homeschooled
Christian Liberty Academy
York County Community College
Southern Maine Community College
Occupations
author
artist
farmer
feral cat rescuer
dollmaker
Short biography
Autistic author EelKat Wendy C Allen is Native American (Kickapoo & MicMac) & Scottish Traveller of Canadian decent. Her Autism limits her ability to speack verbally, but she makes up for this by writing a lot instead.

EelKat Wendy Christine Allen lives in Old Orchard Beach, Maine with a Chihuahua, a pigeon, a rabbit, and 13 rescued feral cats. She has been writing Gorn, Gothic Horror, Monster/Alien Erotica, Space Fantasy, Science Fiction, Weird Tales, Strange Fiction, and Bizarro short stories since 1978. She is the creator of Friends Are Forever aka The Twighlight Manor Series (which spans more than 200 short stories) and it's spin off series:

The Chrystonite Chronicles
The Planet Ptarmagin Series
EelKat's Twisted Tales
The Alien Bible
Alien Vampires From Space

In celebration of the 35th Anniversary of The Twighlight Manor Series, many stories from series are being released for the first time ever as ebook editions.

Also, watch for a brand new series coming in 2014: Tales From The Trailer Park, which will be featuring characters and locations previously seen in: Incubus, The Irony of It All, Leslie Dean Trailer Park Queen, The Renegade Preacher, and The Port-A-Potty King. All your favorite stand-alone redneck hicks from the Maine sticks are returning in a series that brings them all together in one trailer park from the wrong side of the tracks.

Between 1 to 4 stories will be released on Kindle each week throughout 2014.

You keep up to date on New Releases here: http://www.eelkat.com/BooksByEelKat.h...

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Per the author, this is one in a series of short tales designed to be read in fifteen minutes to half an hour, a short break in a busy today. The series is called “Twisted Tales” and other tales I have read were twisted throughout their presentation. This one has a slow build-up to a rather surprising ending. There are subtle hints as to what might happen, but the final scene explodes away from the build-up.

Reading through the slow build-up, I saw it as a rant from someone who lives in a unique tourist popular place against the tourists who brought in all the money. The narrator (author) details how free flowing tourist dollars drive inflation that permanent local residents cannot keep up with. The environment, to include plant life and endangered animal species are in danger.

Then comes the twist and the story becomes one of revenge, graphically and maybe gruesomely described. To say more would be a spoiler. It is only a fifteen minute read; take the plunge; read the story.
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ajarn7086 | Jun 24, 2016 |
This is a flash fiction short story written out of the rather charitable notion that your time should not be wasted. And if you run into a place where your time is wasted, you should at least be entertained. And forget the charity, if you were entertained reading this, spend some money and buy stuff by this author.

The fun in this story is in the writing craft. The dialogue between seven spirited cats approaches poetry.

Reverend Belliot is a successful con artist. Success is measured in how long it takes his victims to see through his deceptions. So, success is varied. It is followed by a burst of energy expended while fleeing from his latest victims. In this case, even the weather is uncooperative, which disturbs the good Rev. Doesn’t he have a special relationship with the supreme meteorologist?

If the weather was less than helpful, at least there was the providential deserted house. With a well laid on store of wood for the fireplace. The rev. will rest and wait for the owners. But it is not the three bears that return home. The reverend probably wishes it were. That he would prefer bears to cats will be explained in the story.

On the cover of the edition I read, the three words “EelKat’s Twisted Tales” were enough to guarantee a “look inside” from me.
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ajarn7086 | May 22, 2016 |
This review was written by the author.
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About This Book and Why It Was Written
or
The Suicide Note That Grew To 473 Pages Long
~~~

In November of 2008, after a 9 year run of violence, harassment, vandalism, being paint-balled in drive by shootings, coming home to find my pets murdered on a weekly basis, and countless other acts of terror, reaching it’s height on October 21, 2006 when my house was burnt to the ground, I started writing a suicide note. I had decided that these people must be right about the fact that I did not deserve to live. And so I planned to die immediately after I finished writing a suicide note to explain why I no longer had reason to live.

Like I said, I started writing the suicide note on November 1st, 2008. But so many things had happened over a period of so many years, that it took me 7 months to write what would become a 473 page long letter.

Today, though I still have suicidal thoughts, they are much less severe and my will to hold on to life seems much stronger now than it was that day in 2008. It seems that by writing that simple suicide note, and by going into such detail of the events as to end up with a 473 page letter, resulted in having a therapeutic effect on me.

The problem is now, that I have no one to read this letter. Part of the problem that started me writing it to begin with, is that I have no friends and no family and it’s been nearly 20 years since I’ve had actual face to face contact with a human being who was not hell bent on hating my guts and violently telling me as much. I have 16 cats and 2 goldfish. These 18 pets are all that remain of the 200+ pets I had in 2001. The rest were taken violently from my by acts of hatred and spite. The death of my dog Buddy in November 2008 was the final blow that resulted in this book which you now hold in your hands today. Buddy, was my emotional support dog, a kind of service dog, who remained by my side for 13 long years. His death was beyond devastating for me, and my current lack of medical insurance prevents me from getting an Autism Service Dog, which I am so desperately in need of. The harassment and violence continued on after Buddy’s death, but without Buddy for comfort, I crumbled emotionally under the violence and became suicidal, thus the start of the suicide note of November 2008.

Hough less suicidal today, I have no one but my 16 cats and 2 goldfish to talk to, and no one to whom I can ask to read this 473 page long letter. I posted this letter on my blog in the spring of 2009, but the relatives and church locals who read it, became more brutal and violent than ever before as a result.
It was mistaken by some as being a book manuscript, seeing how I had originally used the National Novel Writing Month contest to write it, and thus inspired leaders of my church to threaten to excommunicate me if I went ahead with the publication of this book.

Not knowing what else to do, having no one to give my 473 page suicide note to, and having it mistaken for a book manuscript, resulted in a change in the letter. I spent the next 7 months editing and revising, changing the suicide note into a question and answer interview, thus turning my suicide note into a book manuscript - the manuscript for the book you are holding in your hands right now.

Why did I decide to turn my suicide note into a book? Well, because sometimes it feels that there is no one else in the world who has ever gone through the things I have had to go through. That is part of the reason I became so very suicidal two years ago. I know that I can’t be alone in this, I know that some where out there, there are others who are also suffering at the hands of hate crimes, violent prejudice, and brutal harassment. I am not the only person in the world who has received death threats. I am not the only person in the world who has had to deal with bullies who sought to take my life, bullies who killed my pets, bullies who destroyed my property, bullies who set fire to my home.

I am not the only one these things have happened to, but I also know that when you have these things happening to you, it can feel like you are alone in the world and that no one else has ever had to go through these sort of hate crimes. It is this feeling of being alone, this feeling that there is no one else who has been there, this feeling that no one understands or cares, those feelings can become overwhelming and it is those feelings that can lead to suicide.

But, I am a survivor. I have survived the hate crimes. I have survived the depression they caused. I have survived the suicide they inspired. I survived, and that is the goal of this book: to let others know that if I can survive than so can you.
My hope is that by publishing my 473 page long suicide note, that others will read it and find reason to hope, reason to live, reason to find an alternative to suicide. If this book can help in saving even just one life, than it has served it’s purpose.
I would ask anyone reading this book, if suicide has become a thought in your mind, please do what I did and take the time to write a letter, a long letter, a letter of depth and detail, a letter that looks at everything as far back as you can remember, because doing so, saved my life, and I hope that doing so, will save yours.

Much love to all who read this.

~~EelKat

Blurb on the Back cover reads:

In 1979 a pair of children saw what they described as a white monkey sitting in a tree, in the cold far north woods of Mane. A talking monkey, whom adults were unable to see. Adults were quick to dismiss the sighting as overactive imaginations, but when more sightings followed the adults started to pay attention.

Over the next several years strange events lead to adults accusing the Autistic girl of being a demon possessed witch and a poltergeist. By the time she was twelve years old, church leaders had taken to threats of excommunication.

As the silent child grew to a young woman, fear gave way to religious hysteria when church members took to acts of violence and terror, resulting in the deaths of countless pets, and the destruction of property, reaching it's climax when the young woman's home was burnt to the ground, leaving her homeless and faced with living life on the streets.

You are about to take a look at the world as seen through the eyes of an Autistic girl - a world where faeries walk along side the rest of us - and how local religious hysteria came down around her when adults translated her faerie contact as demon possession.

Today the homeless woman known to the world simply as EelKat the Crazy Cat Woman of Maine has agreed to be interviewed and tell her horrendous tale of anguish, violence, alien abduction, homelessness, living with Autism, and terrorism at the hands of religious leaders all because of their . . .

Fear of Little Men
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EelKat | 1 other review | Feb 9, 2010 |
This review was written by the author.
~~~
About This Book and Why It Was Written
or
The Suicide Note That Grew To 473 Pages Long
~~~

In November of 2008, after a 9 year run of violence, harassment, vandalism, being paint-balled in drive by shootings, coming home to find my pets murdered on a weekly basis, and countless other acts of terror, reaching it’s height on October 21, 2006 when my house was burnt to the ground, I started writing a suicide note. I had decided that these people must be right about the fact that I did not deserve to live. And so I planned to die immediately after I finished writing a suicide note to explain why I no longer had reason to live.

Like I said, I started writing the suicide note on November 1st, 2008. But so many things had happened over a period of so many years, that it took me 7 months to write what would become a 473 page long letter.

Today, though I still have suicidal thoughts, they are much less severe and my will to hold on to life seems much stronger now than it was that day in 2008. It seems that by writing that simple suicide note, and by going into such detail of the events as to end up with a 473 page letter, resulted in having a therapeutic effect on me.

The problem is now, that I have no one to read this letter. Part of the problem that started me writing it to begin with, is that I have no friends and no family and it’s been nearly 20 years since I’ve had actual face to face contact with a human being who was not hell bent on hating my guts and violently telling me as much. I have 16 cats and 2 goldfish. These 18 pets are all that remain of the 200+ pets I had in 2001. The rest were taken violently from my by acts of hatred and spite. The death of my dog Buddy in November 2008 was the final blow that resulted in this book which you now hold in your hands today. Buddy, was my emotional support dog, a kind of service dog, who remained by my side for 13 long years. His death was beyond devastating for me, and my current lack of medical insurance prevents me from getting an Autism Service Dog, which I am so desperately in need of. The harassment and violence continued on after Buddy’s death, but without Buddy for comfort, I crumbled emotionally under the violence and became suicidal, thus the start of the suicide note of November 2008.

Hough less suicidal today, I have no one but my 16 cats and 2 goldfish to talk to, and no one to whom I can ask to read this 473 page long letter. I posted this letter on my blog in the spring of 2009, but the relatives and church locals who read it, became more brutal and violent than ever before as a result.
It was mistaken by some as being a book manuscript, seeing how I had originally used the National Novel Writing Month contest to write it, and thus inspired leaders of my church to threaten to excommunicate me if I went ahead with the publication of this book.

Not knowing what else to do, having no one to give my 473 page suicide note to, and having it mistaken for a book manuscript, resulted in a change in the letter. I spent the next 7 months editing and revising, changing the suicide note into a question and answer interview, thus turning my suicide note into a book manuscript - the manuscript for the book you are holding in your hands right now.

Why did I decide to turn my suicide note into a book? Well, because sometimes it feels that there is no one else in the world who has ever gone through the things I have had to go through. That is part of the reason I became so very suicidal two years ago. I know that I can’t be alone in this, I know that some where out there, there are others who are also suffering at the hands of hate crimes, violent prejudice, and brutal harassment. I am not the only person in the world who has received death threats. I am not the only person in the world who has had to deal with bullies who sought to take my life, bullies who killed my pets, bullies who destroyed my property, bullies who set fire to my home.

I am not the only one these things have happened to, but I also know that when you have these things happening to you, it can feel like you are alone in the world and that no one else has ever had to go through these sort of hate crimes. It is this feeling of being alone, this feeling that there is no one else who has been there, this feeling that no one understands or cares, those feelings can become overwhelming and it is those feelings that can lead to suicide.

But, I am a survivor. I have survived the hate crimes. I have survived the depression they caused. I have survived the suicide they inspired. I survived, and that is the goal of this book: to let others know that if I can survive than so can you.
My hope is that by publishing my 473 page long suicide note, that others will read it and find reason to hope, reason to live, reason to find an alternative to suicide. If this book can help in saving even just one life, than it has served it’s purpose.
I would ask anyone reading this book, if suicide has become a thought in your mind, please do what I did and take the time to write a letter, a long letter, a letter of depth and detail, a letter that looks at everything as far back as you can remember, because doing so, saved my life, and I hope that doing so, will save yours.

Much love to all who read this.

~~EelKat

Blurb on the Back cover reads:

In 1979 a pair of children saw what they described as a white monkey sitting in a tree, in the cold far north woods of Mane. A talking monkey, whom adults were unable to see. Adults were quick to dismiss the sighting as overactive imaginations, but when more sightings followed the adults started to pay attention.

Over the next several years strange events lead to adults accusing the Autistic girl of being a demon possessed witch and a poltergeist. By the time she was twelve years old, church leaders had taken to threats of excommunication.

As the silent child grew to a young woman, fear gave way to religious hysteria when church members took to acts of violence and terror, resulting in the deaths of countless pets, and the destruction of property, reaching it's climax when the young woman's home was burnt to the ground, leaving her homeless and faced with living life on the streets.

You are about to take a look at the world as seen through the eyes of an Autistic girl - a world where faeries walk along side the rest of us - and how local religious hysteria came down around her when adults translated her faerie contact as demon possession.

Today the homeless woman known to the world simply as EelKat the Crazy Cat Woman of Maine has agreed to be interviewed and tell her horrendous tale of anguish, violence, alien abduction, homelessness, living with Autism, and terrorism at the hands of religious leaders all because of their . . .

Fear of Little Men
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