NOVELS

PARADISE AT HER FEET - work in progress.

SEPTEMBER 10TH– a shell-shocked architect disappears after 9/11 in pursuit of anonymity on the streets of New York. From the alienation of homelessness the novel moves into the private lives of a family unexpectedly reunited. ...MORE

SLOW REVEAL—finalist in the Heekin Foundation Fellowships. A film editor attempts to reconcile her marriage and deal with her two grown daughters, an artist and a drug addict, after a 20-year extramarital relationship with a poet but when her love for the poet prevails, she must face the deception she’s lived with all those years. ...MORE

 I– the inextricable relationship between an intersexual, the surgeon who reassigned h/er and his wife with whom s/he falls in love. ...MORE



SHORT-STORY COLLECTION

 
DEATH DEFYING ACTS--stories that speak to the indomitable human spirit. An unlikely character from one story becomes the central character of the next. A young woman writes her obituary, her will, a press release about her death before she commits suicide. While fixated on reruns of the Sopranos, an elderly man has a heart attack and a near death experience with Tony Soprano. After a long, protracted bout of cancer, a woman succumbs to the afterlife. A young hacker has an affair with a suburban housewife after she pushes him out of the way of an oncoming bus. A cat runs away from home after her owner does a hit and run, killing a beloved deer she has befriended. A man who loves his juice is given a second chance by his reformed lover but he chooses his path, complete with the fantasy that she will remain with him in mind, if not in body. A terminally ill man is harangued by his two best friends who insist on expediting his death as he had instructed, only to be confronted by a change of heart that takes them through the excruciatingly slow process. A desk clerk at a hotel in East Bumfuck falls in love with a man who has come to purchase a red Jaguar in the waning days of his bout with AIDS and eventually goes to his resting place where he imagines a tryst in the very bed where he spent his final days. ...MORE