title: Dyed in the Wool
author:  Joyce Lekas 
description: A prize winner in the 2012 Bethlehem Writers Roundtable Short Story contest, Joyce Lekas, a writer of nonfiction for many years, has recently turned her hand to fiction. In her professional career, primarily in Silicon Valley, California, Lekas ghostwrote and published extensively in the business, analytical and electronics press and edited and published several technical books. She retired to the Southwest and now lives in Oregon.
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