Nothing is ever where it should be. The pieces are always moving ...

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Intrigued by Netflix’s fantastic Queen’s Gambit? Read more chess-fueled fiction in Moving Pieces, a collection of eight short stories and two novelettes. From blow-by-blow chess action in The Café to the metaphorical thriller The King, the royal game interweaves through each suspenseful story. From the 1930s to the 2030s, from the battlefields of France to the International Space Station, the pieces of our experiences move across the board of life.

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• An errant husband meets a stranger in a rundown New Orleans bar. A battle of minds begins.

• A British spy. An American freelancer. A French policeman. A dead camel.  Stir and serve chilled.

• His Mama always made his choices. How can he choose between two beauty queens? Twins yet!

• An Indian-American with a gambling debt becomes the unwitting pawn of a crooked system.

• WWI doughboy hopes for the last dance with exotic Marthe. But she has other plans.

• International Space Station. Aliens? Houston, we have a problem.