An Affair With Murder by Robert Sells 

I worked for twenty years at

Choate Rosemary Hall, an exclusive boarding school in the heart of

Connecticut. More often than not, students arrived in limousines.

There was a wooded area by the upper athletic fields where I would

take my children for a walk. There, under a large oak tree, stories

about the elves would be weaved into the surrounding forest.

Returning to my home town to

help with a father struggling with Alzheimer’s, the only job open

was at a prison. I taught an entirely different clientele whose only

interaction with limousines was stealing them. A year later Alfred

State College hired me to teach physics. I happily taught there for

over ten years.

My wife’s boss, the

superintendent of a rural school in western New York, begged me to

teach physics and earth science. Helping young high school students

was particularly appealing to me at this point in my career and the

salary was more than reasonable, so I find myself happily teaching at

Mt Morris Central School.

Five years ago, my wife

pestered me about putting to “pen” some of the stories which I

had created for the children and other relatives. I started thinking

about a young boy and a white deer, connected, yet apart. Ideas were

shuffled together, characters created and the result was the Return

of the White Deer. This book was published by the Martin Sisters.

Years ago I gave a lecture on

evolution. What, I wondered, would be the next step? Right away I

realized that silicon ‘life’ had considerable advantages over

mortal man. Later this idea emerged as the exciting and disturbing

story called Reap the Whirlwind.

Two years ago I stumbled upon

an old article in the local paper about a Brinks’ robbery in 1992.

Apparently over ten million dollars were stolen and most of it was

never recovered. Although the mafia was peripherally involved in the

heist, it was unlikely they took the missing millions. This was the

seed which has now grown into the young adult novel, The Runner and

the Robber.

I have many other stories

inside my mind, fermenting… waiting patiently for the pen. Perhaps

someday I will even write about those elves which still inhabit the

woods in the heart of Connecticut.

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