joined the Air National Guard. To complete his training, he was sent to venerable Chanute Air Force Base in the flats of Illinois to learn how to turn
wrenches on jet engines. It was a place brimming with history, a place he soon grew to love.
Ren Garcia is a Science Fiction/Fantasy author and Texas native who grew up in western Ohio. He has been writing since before he could write, often scribbling alien lingo on any available wall or floor with assorted crayons. He attended The Ohio State University and majored in English Literature. Ren has been an avid lover of anything surreal since childhood, he also has a passion for caving, urban archeology and architecture. His highly imaginative “League of Elder” book series is published by Loconeal Publishing
Â
Top Ten List
10:Â Ren was once engaged to a woman 25 years his elder.
9:Â Â Â Ren visited New York City and admired the World Trade Center towers just a month or so before the tragedy of 9/11.
8:Â Â Â The FBI once put a gun in Ren’s face.
7:Â Â Â Bad hearts run in Ren’s family. He’s already outlived most of his paternal grandfathers, all of whom died in their 30’s.
6:Â Â Â Ren’s poor eyesight went undiagnosed until he was in the 3rd grade. Up until that point, he was considered “mentally challenged”.
5: Â Â Â Ren broke his neck playing volleyball in college.
4:Â Â Â Ren often sleeps on the floor, finding it more comfortable than the bed.
3:Â Â Â Ren was once held at gunpoint and frisked by the guards of the Prince of Saudi Arabia.
2:Â Â Â Ren was introduced to his wife via Match Makers International.
1:Â Â Â In a vast extended family of exclusively brown-eyed people, Ren somehow managed to get blue eyes.
Tags: Air National Guard, architecture, caving, Chanute Air Force Base, English Literature major, Fantasy, humorous memoir, Illinois, jet engines, League of Elder series, Loconeal Publishing, memoir, modern ruin, Ohio, science fiction, Texas, The Ohio State University, urban archeology, witty memoir
