Question: "Are these stories based on real people?"
Answer: No. However, they are all inspired by a thousand people and a thousand events -- a little from here and a little from there. I have known people and seen things throughout my life that I cobbled together for a loose framework. But if, for example, there's an LDS (Mormon) Bishop in Fillmore, Utah, who has had the experience I wrote about in Dead On The Corridor, I'll be a monkey's uncle (writing tip: avoid cliches).Some things happen so often, like babies screaming during baby blessings (a kind of christening), that even if your baby daughter screamed her lungs out during her baby blessing...(click here to read the whole post).