When Professor Emeritus John MacDonald discovers that his mistress has been diagnosed with breast cancer, he is forced to disguise his anguish as melancholy, a deep but gentle sadness for a neighbour whom he and his wife Katherine have known for years and love in the way friends love friends -- not in the way a man loves a woman. (A novella)
Matthew Fries is a graduate of the creative writing program at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He writes in many genres, but tries to keep it light and humourous. Proudly Canadian, he reverts to UK spelling (see humourous), and seeks to obtain cult status.