About the Author:

LD Jacobson was once stung by a bee and cried for days. It happens. He’s worked as a radio broadcaster, television sports announcer and, for twenty years now, a police officer. It’s the years in law enforcement that provide the backdrop for many of his stories, but it’s the imagination that gets them going.

FEATURED TITLE:  ‘The soft cloth biscuit‘

Although the term ‘opus’ is musical by definition, it can also refer to something deeply personal when used in a literary realm. To that end, ‘The Soft Cloth Biscuit’ might indeed be my opus! It’s whimsical, more than a bit sad, nostalgic and – in my humble opinion – a lot of fun! There is no REAL Dana, but I imagine a version of her is in all of our hidden hearts. I hope you enjoy it!

In 1979, Evan King’s life changed when a strange girl walking down the road told him to stop singing a particularly bad song.
And into his life, walked Dana Elizabeth Marchant – the lead guitarist of a fabulously talented local garage band called the Soft Cloth Biscuit.
A garage band that just happened to be looking for a new singer…
For the next few years, Evan and Dana were inseparable – forming a bond built on their growing love for each other and the greatest rock and roll music ever made. But every soundtrack has a haunting ballad, something just a little bit darker than the others, and for Evan and Dana it featured a violent and abusive neighbor whose treatment of one of their friends brought the ugliness front and center.
‘How do we help her?” Evan asked one night. “How do we stop him?”
‘Easy,” Dana said. “We kill him.”
Dana Elizabeth Marchant was a lot of things – whimsical and mercurial – but at times she carried with her a level of understanding and experience far beyond what her tender years would suggest.
Those few years would leave an indelible mark on Evan’s life – a mark made of equal parts love, pain and even betrayal.
But to Dana, they were merely a drip in an infinite ocean.
‘Know that we are the timeless ones…’
Forty years later, he receives two pieces of news.
The first is that he is dying.
The second is that Dana is back – and she’s putting the band back together.