NOVELS

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


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


SOUL SURVIVOR—a novel that traces the journey back into consciousness of Martin Mercier after he assists his wife’s suicide and attempts to take his own life. While he’s in a coma, his son and daughter must decide whether or not to pull him off the ventilator. After much debate, they remove life support and he starts breathing on his own. ...MORE

 
SLOW REVEAL—a finalist in the Heekin Foundation Fellowships this novel is about a film editor who tries 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 lesbian poet. But when her love for the poet prevails, she must face the deception she’s lived with all those years. ...MORE

 
BLUE LIGHT OF THE FROZEN RAIN—literary fiction that combines fantasy and science fiction to explore the human condition called love. A young girl grows up on Amber Sea, inhabited by humans and Astifrosians who mate with abandon, know nothing of this thing called love until humans teach them and pass on Love Disease, a degenerative mental illness. ...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