Mary Ann Presman is a retired advertising copywriter living in Rockford, Illinois, with a lifelong passion for reading, especially short stories. “Garage Sale” is part of a collection she is working on entitled “The Good Dishes.” Two other stories from the collection will be published in upcoming issues of Kippis! A Literary Journal. As a snowbird, she is nourished by writing groups both in Tucson and Galena, Illinois. Other stories appear in: “Curse? There Ain’t No Stinking Chicago Cub Curse,” “The Red Tent Anthology,” “Love from Galena,” and “Sweet & Savory Stories from Galena.”