Introduction

We conclude Volume One of Welcome to Saragun Springs this month, with Book Five, The Caretaker’s Cottage, which is our “Featured presentation.”

Unfortunately (in my point of view), terms such as “vignettes” and “episodic” tend to describe my longer productions. Although I do not pretend to be in her league, Dorothy Parker discovered she was not a novelist the hard way and drank a bottle of shoe polish to get out of writing one after the advance had been spent. Fortunately, Mrs. Parker was much better at attempted suicide than at the successful version–so she survived and went on as a short track writer.

So, this piece isn’t a “real” novel, but it is a book, thus I have no plans involving the ingestion of cleaning products, nor is there an advance (or “minus-vance”) for me to squander. Regardless, the book brings back Miss Gwen Cooper, the Leading Lady FC who first appeared in Book One and sporadically since.

And for those of you who noticed the first mention of “Volume One” in this post, consider yourself forewarned of something that will arrive on this site sometime in 2025.

Leila