Zachary Taylor Branch is the pen name of a semi-retired scientist and consultant enjoying the good life with his wife Nancy in Lorena, TX. His short story “The Nerine Seven” has been published in Alien Dimensions Anthology Series #26, https://aliendimensions.com/, and “The Gateway” is included in the B Cubed Press Southern Truths anthology, https://bcubedpress.wordpress.com.
“Little House on the Ecliptic” recently came out in the Oddity Prodigy Bright Mirror anthology, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?1056049, and “Mrs. Brown’s Day” in the Harvey Duckman Presents anthology On a Different Tuesday, https://harvey-duckman-is-alive.ghost.io/happy-harvey-tuesday/.
His grown kids David and Elise are too far away, pursuing careers in art therapy and medicine.