Lane von Herzen: 24-Hour Power Outage Threatened

My Third Novel's Conclusion, My Heartbreak

My heart begins to break when I think about completing this particular book -- because this narrative has sustained me like no other story I've known. It's both more personal and more universal than my other works. But beyond memory and archetype, it's a cri-de-coeur about needing to become the person one is destined to be. And in the writing, I have met my own life's work, my own fated journey -- having the sense all the while that the pages are suffused with a resonance, an energy, an electrified field that defies explanation. Writers hope and pray to be overtaken by a work in this way -- to be conscripted into passionate service of a profound story. To experience it even once in a lifetime seems a great privilege. I still have several months before this novel is complete, and this constitutes my reprieve. Because I'm not ready for the beauty to end.

Friday, October 11, 2024

24-Hour Power Outage Threatened

OIG Hotline, please be apprised that the FBI appears to be alleging that we will be experiencing a "weekly, 24-hour power outage" due to directives extended by the FBI to PG&E. I will be attempting to keep your Office apprised of any and all power outages. Please assume, if I have been rendered silent on email and blog, that something is wrong and/or that my communications have been cut off through a power outage.

Thank you for allowing me to extend this apparent FBI allegation to your Office.

Most respectfully,

Lane MacWilliams

* Please allow me to once again extend the disclaimer that many threats received by me and extended by the FBI are unsubstantiated by me at this time. I regret that I am unable to assess the credibility of every threat extended by this agency or their affiliates, and also that I am not in a position to judge the likelihood of their manifestation. Having said that, many of the FBI's threats toward my family in the past have manifested in real world harms. As a result, I believe that FBI threats extended to me must be viewed as potentially substantive.