Written Tales

  • David Andersen

    David P. Andersen is a retired computer systems design engineer and longtime woodworker. A former musician, composer, and arranger, he built two harpsichords and contributed a chapbook story to Written Tales.

February 7, 2026

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Salt air hangs over the Great Highway. Sand settles like snow. An engine stops ticking outside Science Hall, and a man with calloused memory begins again, far from the mountains.

August 5, 2024

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Snow gathers outside the workshop window as he raises the carved cello piece and tests it with a tap, the ringing note giving his worn hands a pause from the...