After a career as a librarian, having worked in academic libraries in Ohio and California, the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, and a Pentagon think tank in Alexandria, Virginia, I now spend my time writing novels and stories in cafes and at home.
Works in Progress. Novels: Drone suspense; island resort murders. Short story collection of supernatural fantasy tales. Hobbies: Chess, Reading, Sports.
After a career as a librarian, having worked in academic libraries in Ohio and California, the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, and a Pentagon think tank in Alexandria, Virginia, I now spend my time writing novels and stories in cafes and at home.
Works in Progress. Novels: Drone suspense; island resort murders. Short story collection of supernatural fantasy tales. Hobbies: Chess, Reading, Sports.
This baker’s dozen presents the game of chess, its stage and actors, as symbols of an incomprehensible world, a means of communication beyond language, an unreachable ideal, a trap, a disease, a salvation. These stories are literary, hallucinatory, and mystifying, resisting easy conclusions or explanations.
Washington DC is the setting of the annual library conference and Ally Derringer is anticipating a magnificent event to cap off her year as president. Many new members have recently joined, although it is unclear why.
The festive atmosphere is interrupted as an unsolved murder threatens to wreck the conference. Strangely, few conventioneers seem...
