Author Jeffrey DeRego
Park Place
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Meet Kelly, Janice, Deb, and Bea. They are parents of toddler children who’ve forged a bond at the Hamilton J. Greely Park and playground. Kelly is seeks refuge from the suffocation of raising a toddler as a stay at home mother. Janice struggles with an absent husband. Bea is raising her addict-daughter’s child. Deb is a single mother, barely out of high school. Things spiral out of control after Kelly embarks on a passionate affair with David, another parent from at the local playground. Kelly's subsequent dishonesty rattles her marriage and redefines her friendships with the others. Lying to the police, and searching for herself in what has become a very empty and alien slice of America, Kelly must chart a course to seeming normalcy. Is there a way back, or is the only way now, out into the unknown?"
Cover: Paperback
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Language: ENG- English
Audience: Adults
ISBN: 9798336214451
The Author
Author Jeffrey DeRego
About the Author
I love to write, I enjoy the tactile feel and hardy sound of a good keyboard beneath my fingers. I love to explore human problems through fiction. I love adventure and pathos and telling stories that move readers.
I was born in the seaside city of New Bedford and began writing poetry at first, then prose, in my early 20s. Since then I've been a pretty steady writer of short stories. I attended school on Cape Cod, then in England before completing my degree in English Literature here in New Hampshire.
I'm a widower with two kids and a dog.
I've been selling stories pretty consistently since 2005 when Iron Bars and the Glass Jaw landed at www.escapepod.org. I have two books in print, Escape Clause, a collection of 10 superhero stories, and Fleas, a collection of 10 stories set in the same flea market. I am now releasing stories directly into the kindle store and preparing a new volume of Union Dues stories for both digital and paperback delivery. My fiction has appeared in podcast form, collected in the anthologies Live Free or Die Die Die! Live Free or Sci Fi! and Live Free or Undead! I have also written several stories for Tales of World War Z website.