Despite being a captive of the Civil Service for thirty-five years, C.J. has always been a writer. She lives in Victoria BC in a crooked old building on a crooked street where she stares out the window at the sea waiting for stories and poems to smack her on the head. C.J. finds humour in the unlikeliest places. She laughs at the wrong times and says things she probably shouldn’t.  Life has provided C.J. with a palette of strange, wonderful characters and unique situations; many find their way into stories.  Her essays, short stories, and poems have been published in Monday Magazine, Senior Living Magazine, The Victoria Times Colonist newspaper, and online at Commuterlit.com. Her story “Leandra” was accepted by Stories Less Spoken. Her work appears in three anthologies: Dropped Threads 2, Blood on the Holly, and the Sisters in Crime Anthology, Crimewave Two: Women of a Certain Age.  She is currently working on a novel about eccentric people solving life-threatening dilemmas in unique ways.Today, I have the pleasure of reading her short story, Murder at the Acropolis, which is published in the January 2024 issue of SAM Magazine.