John Charles Miller

John Charles Miller (floridamiller@verizon.net) is a groundwater geologist and writer of speculative fiction and other strange little stories. Residing in Tampa, Florida with his wife Mary, he has been a part-time resident of Citrus County, Florida since 1981, on Lake Tsala Apopka, near the town of Hernando. During his almost 40 years as a geologist he focused on groundwater supplies and contamination assessments, monitoring, and cleanup. He is a licensed Florida Professional Geologist. He is...See more

John Charles Miller (floridamiller@verizon.net) is a groundwater geologist and writer of speculative fiction and other strange little stories. Residing in Tampa, Florida with his wife Mary, he has been a part-time resident of Citrus County, Florida since 1981, on Lake Tsala Apopka, near the town of Hernando. During his almost 40 years as a geologist he focused on groundwater supplies and contamination assessments, monitoring, and cleanup. He is a licensed Florida Professional Geologist. He is fluent in Spanish, having served in the US Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic from 1962-64 under John F. Kennedy's presidency, and has 8 years professional experience in Latin America. His writing website is quarkspacetravel.com, where his short stories can be downloaded free as pdf documents for your reading pleasure. A number of his stories have been award winners in annual contests of the Tampa Writers Alliance. The Quark Space Travel website name was derived from his short story, Scammed, in which a random Google search comes across an obscure website: quarkspacetravel.com. The story took 1st Place in Science Fiction/Fantasy in the 2009 Tampa Writers Alliance annual writing contest, and is published in Wordsmith 2010. His short story You Can't Pick Up Raindrops was published in the online magazine, LOST, as the lead November 2008 story. http: //... See less