Author Description

From the air, the town of Frederick, Maryland, looks quiet, peaceful, serene. But in the shadow of its imposing church spires, noirish things are happening. These eleven dark tales, pulled from the twisted brains of Frederick Writers Salon members, will take you to places familiar and unfamiliar.... the muck and mire of the C&O Canal... a sunny field studded with butterflies... dark alleys and abandoned bowling halls... a Civil War battlefield past and present...the futuristic wreckage of a malignant candy store... a child's lemonade stand. Within these venues you'll find femme fatales, cynical antiheroes, wise cracks and wise guys. They're all there waiting for you...in the shadow of the spires. With original fiction by: D.M. Domosea, Tisdale Flannery, Dr. Dale A. Grove, Michael Harris, Amanda Linehan, JJ Mikel, Anna O'Keefe, A. Francis Raymond, Leslie Skyrms, Suz Thackston, and Charmaine Weston.