D.F. Dempster
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D.F. Dempster

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Duncan Dempster is a freelance writer who, having spent the major part of a lifetime employing words and language as a matter of vocational expedience, has discovered late in life the joys and challenges of juggling words and ideas in a purely avocational mode. A retired career Naval officer and later a bank property manager and internet service technician, he is now fully retired in the institutional sense and totally immersed in his newfound career of developing his dream retirement on the Big Island of Hawaii. His passion for writing in general and fiction, in particular, knows few bounds save those imposed by the necessary daily routines of eating, sleeping, and exercising, and even then, words and ideas rattle around in his head like stray atoms vying for escape. He is an avid believer in the power of words to evoke emotion and its corollary, the power of emotion to inspire words.  Thus he strives to use language as a tool to paint the landscapes of human relationships and feelings and to employ those feelings to flesh out and define the limits and boundaries of words. Other than a few stabs at poetry and lyric writing, Chapel on the Moor is his first serious attempt to trace the outlines and color the contours of relationships through the telling of a story. As a followup, he recently published a sequel, Where Are You?, which follows the lives of Chapel’s two main protagonists some fifty years later as they venture back through time to revisit the chapel site as well as their youth. In the process, they struggle to reconcile their increasingly ambivalent feelings for each other. Though steeped in mystery bordering on fantasy, both stories can be as real or as fanciful as the reader chooses to imagine. In this author's view, both are valid interpretations of reality.  Now available (as of October 2021):: An audiobook version of Chapel on the Moor, via audible.com
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