Len Fried is a retired technology executive in the semiconductor industry, where he has numerous patents and publications in scientific journals. Since retiring he has become an Enrolled Agent, which is a federally authorized tax preparer and is the highest credential awarded by the IRS. His fiction has been published in several literary magazines and has had readings of his work at libraries and book clubs. He has previously published a book of short stories and poems, “Taxman and Other Works”. He lives with his wife in Clinton, CT.