***David Whitmarsh*** *is a rehabilitated software engineer who now spends his days playing acoustic blues badly and writing.* Winter, *his first published work, is the backstory of a character in his hopefully forthcoming novel, provisionally titled* The Long Fall. *David lives in West Sussex with his wife, two cats and a randomly varying subset of his four adult children. You can find him on Twitter as [@whitmarshdj](https://twitter.com/whitmarshdj).*