The author is a graduate of Kalamazoo’s Western Michigan University (English major, science minor) and lives in the area, in the city of Portage, about 40 miles from Lake Michigan. She has been a teacher in the local schools and a jill-of-all-trades for a small newspaper.

This ten word story was typed on a manual Olivetti-Underwood, Lettera 22, manual typewriter, made in Italy c. 1961.  Let’s call him Lorenzo. Typed by Kae Sable.