Safety Rules

by Jill D. Block

Jill D. Block’s first novel, THE TRUTH ABOUT PARALLEL LINES, has just been published. Here’s a short story to give you a taste of her writing… In Safety Rules, Veronica reports for jury duty, another New Yorker doing her civic duty. An experience from her childhood compels her to serve, while also raising the question of whether she belongs there at all. As she moves forward through the process, she must decide whether to follow the rules, or if she will speak up in ways she hadn’t before. Frst published by Pegasus Books in Alive in Shape and Color

22 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 4, 2018

About the author

Jill D. Block was born in Buffalo, NY, raised in Titusville, NJ, and spent her formative years in New York City. She attended Stuyvesant High School, Clark University and Brooklyn Law School.

A voracious reader, Jill is a partner at a global law firm, practicing real estate law. In between billable hours, she writes the kind of fiction she likes to read.

In 2015, Jill published her first short story. Since then, her stories have appeared in Title Magazine (Australia) and the anthologies Dark City Lights, In Sunlight or in Shadow and Alive in Shape and Color. The Truth About Parallel Lines is her first novel.

Jill lives in New York City.