Writing Portfolio
Novels | Essays | Biographies
-Prologue-
The furious scratch of pen to paper. Few sounds are as pleasant to a writer’s ear. The thoughts that compel this action—those ethereal words—ever pool about the mind, whispering, nudging, sometimes even shouting. The urge to write can be restrained for a time. The obligations of life, especially, are a convenient recourse for abeyance. Yet the words keep accumulating, growing, coalescing into paragraph after paragraph of dialogue and prose, straining at the capacities of memory. Finally, they must be released. Thus pours out a deluge of consciousness. Edicts of grammar are obliterated. Penmanship cast aside as flotsam. The once white paper is now stained in scribbles of ink, scribbles that will become tragedies, comedies, badinage, poetic meanderings. New worlds explored, old worlds made new. Thoughts to ponder and thoughts to scoff. But all of it, every single character and setting and conversation is now real, embossed upon the reader’s mind.
Are the resulting stories worthy of an audience? An author rarely knows. Only this is certain. The words are again gathering.
Novels
Literary | Historical | Humor
What Remains
Billionaire Philip Lewis wants to help Rhumbia, one of the poorest countries on earth. Unfortunately, he finds that money alone can't eradicate the decades of civil conflict, the endemic disease, the corrupt politicians, the dilapidated infrastructure, nor the enervating poverty that suffocates the populace. Instead, the only hope for lasting change is brought about not by this wealthy philanthropist, but by an orphaned peasant girl who has the courage to risk her life for the sake of her homeland.
Once We Loved
It's a curious yet somber truth that the most passionate loves always have the most sorrowful endings. From Abelard and Heloise to Dante and Beatrice, history will countenance no other outcome. Yet still we continue to love, still we continue to yearn for what history suggests can never happen, still we find people like Jean Luc and Charlotte, the protagonists of our upcoming tale, who deny fate and defiantly plunge into love's adamantine bounds. The philosophers among us ponder the contradiction. The poets among us take a deep breath and blindly follow the young couple on their journey.
Apsaalooke: Life of the Crow
The Great Plains of eighteenth century North America were a savagely beautiful place. It swelled with buffalo, teemed with wolves, was prowled by grizzlies, and suffered vast extremes of inhospitable weather. The native peoples who made their homes amidst these dangers nevertheless loved their country and fought visciously to protect it. These were the Crow
Summer Vacation: Volume 1
Three kids are forced to endure an entire summer without internet or cell phones. Out of sheer boredom they shuffle outside to find things to do. Luckily they befriend a boy who not only has the knack of keeping the days entertaining, but of stirring up danger.
Summer Vacation: Volume 2
Harry's friends still don't have internet or phone service. Nerves are frayed and tensions run high. Then the local news profiles an outbreak of burglaries and details signs of a forthcoming apocalypse. How can the kids protect themselves without technology! Luckily Harry has an answer for all these problems. Or at least thinks he does. Too bad most of his schemes result in disaster.
Summer Vacation: Volume 3
Perhaps insanity is the result of no technology for today's youth, as things continue to go awry for Harry and friends. Sophie bonks her head and suddenly thinks she's an international spy. Cece secretly takes to reading books. Daniel's father decides to run for President of the United States, thereby thrusting Daniel into the spotlight. Of course, Harry can't help but involve himself in everything, and these intrusions end up causing havoc.
Naysayers & Doomsdayers
Behind every innovation are doubters, skeptics, and fearmongers. Those who decry the end of civilization as we know it. These are their stories.
The Bicycle
"Bicycling will prevent women from having children, promote immodest attire, and encourage improper liaisons,"
-Women's Resource League
