All my electronic media work such as Miranda Literary Magazine and Cool Justice is to the right on the links. This is a sample of some of my creative work. To see magazine and newspaper samples, click the link above. If you have trouble viewing anything, please send me an email.
Short Stories
Paper Thin 2006.
This short story is the beginning of Adirondack Views, a collection of short stories about Jack and his endless summer. He helps an animal trapper try to catch a bat in the neighbor’s pool, sabotages his neighbor’s lawn mower, battles with his mother-in-law, and searches for a man who disappears in the woods at the end of the road. This collection is still a work in progress. I began with the goal of writing something with humor, and while the humor ebbs and flows, the greater arc has emerged. Winner of the Connecticut AWP award in Fiction (2005)New for 2008
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Closer 2005.
This began as a writing prompt by Janet Barroway. It was: “Write down a bumper sticker you like. Describe the vehicle it’s on, give the observer a reason to look inside. Open the door, name three smells, two textures, three objects you see on the seat and floor. Name a fourth object you are surprised to see there. You look up and there is the owner of the car. How do they look and act? What is said? That covers the creation of an entire scene, including significant detailing, dialogue, and the element of surprise and conflict.” This was my attempt at this. When I finished writing it, I was sure that this character would have to continue on.
I Am Wee 2004.
Some ideas don’t fit into the normal categories of my writing. Writing a novel or a short story is a matter of precision and focus on character, conflict, and conclusion. Often I write from ideas or concepts. Some might call it experimental writing, but it is more like playing with ideas. In this piece we are among a school of minnows off the New England coast. But something is preying on them from the deep dark water.
Novels
The Staff 2005.
This unusual tragedy is set in a small rural village early in the nineteenth century. It examines a woman’s life shattered by murder and the subsequent laws that punish the killer and the survivors equally. This novel was semi-finalist for the Mid-list Press Award for the novel. It is approximately 280 pages.
Hinterland 2008.
Sample Coming soon.
