The elementals are superior beings who help take care of every aspect of our environment. When a major natural disaster strikes, they find themselves short on workforce, as some of their own make matters worse.
Maria K. is the pen name of Maria Igorevna Kuroshchepova - a first-generation Russian-Ukrainian immigrant. An engineer by education, an analyst by trade, as well as a writer, photographer, artist and amateur model, Maria brings her talent for weaving an engaging narrative to stories of life, fashion and style advice, book and movie reviews, and common-sense and to-the-point essays on politics and economy.
Where Maria K. Have gotten the idea of writing about nomes ? I can only think of her sitting at her desk looking outside her window at the nomes at her or her neighbor yard nomes but it’s a guess. Still a short story out of a series of four stories which should have been connected into one, that would have made it simpler for a true review.
( Format : Audiobook ) "Operation big bad wolf." The second in the Elemental series of shorts, this one just 40 minutes. Unfortunately, it is again read by Jenny Lind whose total lack of performance fails to lift the story, leaving it sounding dreary. There is potential there but better to read the printed book.