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For Nancy J. Allen, obstacles are temporary.

Take, for instance, an incident that occurred about 40 years ago 鈥� a personal computer crashed.

At the time Allen was working on a novel on the computer in her garage/guesthouse after midnight. She was dreaming of being a famous novelist.

The next morning Allen discovered that though the computer gave no outward sign of a malfunction, the manuscript had silently exploded.

Even the backup copy of the manuscript on a floppy disk was irreparably damaged.

鈥淓verything was mishmash. I had nothing,鈥� Allen recalled.

Allen thinks she suffered from PTSD from the loss of the novel. She did say goodbye to the manuscript but not to writing. She didn鈥檛 give up.

鈥淚 learned something from that experience. My body did not get over the terror of losing that book,鈥� she said in a phone interview. 鈥淏ut my brain did.鈥�

Allen went on to attend a weeklong summer writing workshop in Taos. To get into the workshop, she had to write a short story. The teacher liked it and said it was publishable.

The teacher suggested Allen attend graduate school. Allen took her advice.

Fifteen years ago, at 65, Allen enrolled in a low-residence Master of Fine Arts program at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. In the program, Allen said that she learned how to write fiction by studying short stories.

That didn鈥檛 jibe with Allen鈥檚 presumption that writers write novels, not short stories.

She remembers being particularly moved reading James Baldwin鈥檚 鈥淕oing to Meet the Man.鈥� The short story tells about an impotent white Alabama police officer who is sexually aroused by torturing a Black civil rights protester.

鈥淵ou read it and it changes you,鈥� she said.

Allen is now 80, and she is seeing the publication of her first book, 鈥渁 method of reaching extreme altitudes and other stories.鈥�

鈥淚鈥檓 slow and I鈥檓 indolent,鈥� she said in a moment of self-deprecation.

鈥淏ut I work hard when I work.鈥�

The University of New Mexico Press published the book, Allen鈥檚 debut story collection, which is part of its Lynn and Lynda Miller Southwest Fiction Series.

Seven of the stories in the collection had been previously published in literary journals.

One of those seven, the title story, won the $1,000 award for Best Fiction from bosque (the magazine) in 2013. The magazine nominated the story for the Pushcart Prize.

The title story contains characters, real and fictional, who are linked within a shared theme of aerospace. The story is set in Roswell, where Allen was raised.

It references Robert Goddard鈥檚 pioneering work on liquid-fueled rockets in Roswell.

Nazi German scientist Wernher von Braun is quoted admitting to the theft of Goddard鈥檚 research for use in Germany鈥檚 V-2 rockets during World War II.

One could argue between fact and fiction is the so-called Roswell Incident. What to make of the debris left on the ground in 1947 by the supposed crash of an unknown aircraft.

In the story is Hamm Wilson, the fictional father of a Roswell family. As an FBI agent, he鈥檚 invited to witness the Manhattan Project鈥檚 atomic bomb explosion on July 16, 1945, at the Trinity Site.

Hamm witnesses the blast: 鈥淭he sublime terror Hamm feels that morning enters his cells. For the rest of his life, he will never allow his mind to linger on what he saw at White Sands 鈥︹��

In 1950 Hamm moves on from the FBI to work for an oil company.

We see him bringing a bag of Roman candles to a Fourth of July party at a home on the New Mexico Military Institute.

The Wilsons鈥� 3-year-old daughter Josie鈥檚 cheek is severely burned when a Roman candle she is holding explodes.

The story explores the Wilson family鈥檚 dynamics as the parents age and their two daughters, Georgina and Josie, grow up.

There鈥檚 a reference in the story to the Soviet Union beating the 近距离内射合集 States in the space race, launching a rocket, nicknamed Sputnik, in 1957.

The story鈥檚 title is borrowed from a theoretical essay Goddard wrote early in his career on the possible use of rockets not only to reach the upper atmosphere but also to break through the earth鈥檚 gravitation.

When Goddard published the essay, it drew national scorn, the story states. But on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, affirming Goddard鈥檚 theory.

Allen said Roswell has had a mythic quality for her 鈥渂ecause we never went back.鈥� The family moved to Dallas.

鈥淣ancy鈥檚 writing is complex and in a great way,鈥� Lynn Miller said. 鈥淥ur (fiction series) reviewers were enthusiastic about all the stories.鈥�

The collection contains three stories presented as a triptych. It looks at the sexual, social and emotional challenges at different stages in the life of a female character whose first name is Rhymes.

The first story of the triptych is set in the historic Alvarado Hotel, which was a Harvey House located at the train station in Downtown Albuquerque. Built in 1902, it was demolished in 1970.

Allen, the author, also received a Bachelor of Arts from Vanderbilt University, an Master of Science in Spiritual Psychology from Greenwich University, and writing residences as a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Summer Writers鈥� Conference and at the Vermont Studio Center.

She and her husband Roger divide their time between Dallas and Taos.