THE CYCLE OF SOIL (novel: speculative, psychological "fiction")
THE CYCLE OF SOIL is a near future novel best described as LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE meets SEVERANCE.
THE CYCLE OF SOIL explores the illusion of free will in a world where evolved souls conduct The Orchestration - a cosmic manipulation where evolved beings compete for humanity's future. As The Orchestration unfolds, three lives intersect: a community leader who tries to save their people by betraying them, an unstable mystic with a heartbreaking delusion, and an elegant scientist's who all play critical moves in this game of free will versus fate.
GRENADINE KISSES AT MIDNIGHT (story collection: weird)
GRENADINE KISSES... is a collection of dark, tender stories that reads like the love child of Aimee Bender and Rikki Durconet. Historical figures often play into the stories, like the French revolutionary Guy Debord who finds a dead bunny in his wall.
The collection focuses on the many definitions of 'connection' - some bizarre, some deranged, and some deeply moving. In one story a man falls in love with the picture of a fetus. In another, a girl understands the up side of having a third leg. In another, frogs are disappearing...
Most of the stories have been previously published in places like NAR, Folio, The Portland Review, Pif, and 10,000 Pounds of Black Ink and nominated / won awards.