NARRATIVE of WARD COURIER

January, 2011

SOUTH WALES, ORCHARD PARK, and GLENWOOD, NY

It was a still Saturday afternoon during the winter break of 2011. Most of my colleagues were away from the campus on their little forays. I would have been on a ramble myself, but I was uneasy about getting too far from home. I was worried about my mother.

My dad had died a few years before the action of these books commences. My mother was starting to lose her faculties. ...