Francis Duffy began writing via letters home to a loved one who'd ordered: "Show me places I'll never see except through your eyes. No details are too small." That led to war (Danang, ChuLai), then college (LA, SF, Tokyo) and grad school (TX, HI), then editing/writing at newspapers (Tokyo, Jeddah, Seoul), magazines (TX, Tokyo), tech pubs (Tokyo), then web-content work (DC). And lately, fiction.