Richard Schreck

Richard Schreck (he/him) is a writer living in Maryland. Richard is the author of over 30 non-fiction works and a former publication editor for TESOL, the largest professional association of persons who teach the English language. “Baker’s Wall” as well as his fiction in The Mailer Review, Gypsophila, Backchannels, and Mollusk Lit explore a fictional world he began while living on the Gulf coast. Richard is developing that world in Brain Game, a novel set in Baltimore and New Orleans in the years following Katrina. He holds the Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, where he began a lifelong interest in technology as a contribution to linguistics and education. Among other fun things, he directed the delivery of the first online university course in central Siberia.

Baker’s Wall

A hot string of up-moves through positions of increasing responsibility and compensation landed Charlene Posey a job interview in 2007 with Craig Baker. They sat in his office directly opposite each other in matching visitors’ chairs with seats too shallow for his six-four frame.
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