
Michael Offutt is a writer of science fiction. He has one brother, no pets, and a few roots that keep his tree of life sufficiently watered.
Mr. Offutt’s mother is Japanese and his father is Texan. When he asked her how they got together, she happily responded that when she was working in the United States Air Force back in the 50's, she used her spare time as an office clerk at the Air Force Base to look over personnel records for a husband. Mr. Offutt remarks that peculiar behavior like this must have been how people met each other prior to social networking. It puzzles him whenever he thinks about it, so he chooses to love his stalker mother who speaks quite fondly of the family to the fictional people that live in the basement.