Charles Langley is an 83 year old retiree who returned to writing about ten months ago after a fifty-nine year hiatus.

Since then he has written over sixty short stories for E-zines and print magazines, a column "A Writer's Life" for a writer's magazine. and numerous humorous and reflective pieces.

In his youth he was a reporter and columnist for several newspapers and was assistant to the editor of "Furniture South" magazine. He covered the Hauptmann trial in Secretary for the IBEW. He retired as a Staff Officer from a military intelligence unit in the Army of the United States and as head of Statistical Quality Control for a subsidiary of AT&T. He has contributed to books of poetry and will have his story "The One For The Job" published in a collection of short stories in 2001.

Charles Langley moved to cold Rochester, NY, from sunny California two years ago to be near his three granddaughters. His hobbies are writing ( of course), reading, and working the stock market. He recently completed a story about a murder that took place 72 years ago where much of the dialogue is the actual words of the suspect, done from memory.

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