Oct 1st, 2007
Chicago Ghosts
Back when I was living in San Diego I used to play basketball in Balboa Park about two or three times per week, mostly on the lesser court. Just for your edification, most gyms that contain two basketball courts will spontaneously sort into a greater and lesser courts. The greater court will normally contain the real ballers - the guys who come down every day, can dunk, and get into actual fights over ridiculously petty calls in a game.
Actually, playing basketball on the greater court pretty much objectively sucks but everyone wants to play there, but I digress - once upon a time, several friends of mine were playing on the lesser court and while the ballers on the greater court were dunking on one another and punching each other in the face, we somehow found ourselves playing against a team of girls.
Now mind you - I don’t recall who won that game and that means there is at least a 40% chance that the girls beat us and my selective memory is really going to work right now so I really am not trying to make light of the fact that we were playing against a team of girls.
One of those girls happened to be named Rachel and we would periodically run into one another at the gym and chat. We both shared a passion for writing and I showed her some of the writing I had done through Drift Reality and at one point even posted one of her stories to Drift Reality.
Fast-forward about four or five years and she is publishing a book through Schiffer Publishing called Chicago Ghosts (ISBN: 9780764327421) due out in October of this year. I just ordered a copy from the Schiffer Books Web site and have to say I’m really happy for Rachel that she turned her passion into a reality.
