David Drury

David Drury was born in an island military hospital that has long since been abandoned to ghosts. He has survived Texas tornadoes, Pacific Rim volcanoes and Japanese earthquakes, and now lives in Seattle, Washington, where nothing bad could ever happen. His short fiction has appeared on National Public Radio, in Best American Nonrequired Reading (2003, 2019), Best Christian Short Stories, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. His first-person essays have appeared on CNN, in Huffington Post, and elsewhere.

Photo by: Mary Rauzi

Articles

Card Counter Mindset – Thinking Several Moves Ahead in Code and Life

By David Drury

For six years, I made a living doing something that may sound glamorous or stupid, depending on your temperament for risk, scrutiny, and games of chance. by David Drury

Published in A Card Counter Mindset, July 2026