With degrees from Amherst and MIT, Jack Vernon is happy living with his wife in a retirement community in suburban Boston. He sings in two choruses, attends movies, the theater and other readily available activities. He enjoys playing golf, has traveled a good deal, and has vigorously and successfully rehabbed from several injuries and ailments. His wife opined that he became obsessive in pursuit of some of these activities and suggested that he take a seminar on creative writing. Prescient. One story led to another and soon there were enough for a small book.