When I was a child, I played more with the boxes than the toys that came in them. The world was much bigger then, full of ghosts, aliens, and magic. Captain Hook lived in my closet for a little while. I stayed up many nights, watching the door. He wasn’t going to catch me sleeping! There may have been a few disadvantages to my untamed imagination.

Later, I discovered books and other people’s imaginations. Horror was fun, mystery captivating, and who doesn’t like to relive the glory of a first love vicariously through engaging characters, but speculative fiction does all that and more. It takes us to places that never were and worlds that might one day be. It makes us think and catch our breath.

A microbiologist by profession, and dreamer by choice, I’ve enjoyed my time in other writer’s worlds. Now I want to share my own. I’ve published two short stories in literary magazines and contributed twice to anthologies published on Amazon. My first novel, The Ghost and the Machine, will be available on Amazon in December 2019.