Susan McDonough-Wachtman has been a burger tosser, customer service rep, curriculum developer, parent, kayaker, gardener, and high school teacher. She’s written children’s stories, short stories, romances, essays, science fiction, numerous letters to the editor, and a blog. Most recently, “Mother, May I” was accepted for the Halloween edition of Tales From the Moonlit Path, and “Xanthippe” was included in the Brigid’s Gate anthology Musings of the Muses. She lives on the coast in the Pacific Northwest with one cat and one husband. Ferry Findings, a collection of short stories, is available from Kitsap Publishing, and the science fiction novella, Snail's Pace, is now available from Water Dragon Publishing. Find more at https://susanmcdonoughwachtman.wordpress.com