Shaughn Marlowe, Ph.D., is retired from the Los Angeles Police Department and the clinical psychology profession. He enjoys playing classical piano, especially Rachmaninoff, writing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and is a recent coauthor of A Chuckle a Day Keeps the Shrink Away. His short stories have appeared in Serape XVIII, New Mexico State University, and Amazing Cat Tales, Linden Hill Publishing.