fiction.
This is fiction. So none of this is true.
Current work
Selected stories placed in journals and anthologies.
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Memory's Bright Burn
A linked collection of stories and flash fiction following a boy growing up in 1970s Ohio.
In progress
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One Day in the Life of Daniel Farr
After being fired for viewing online pornography at work, Daniel Farr spends a single day confronting the consequences of a life that no longer makes sense to him.
Completed novel. Seeking representation.
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One Year in the Life of Daniel Farr
The story continues as Daniel learns the cost of freedom.
Completed sequel. Seeking representation.
The novels
Novel · 2019 and Novel · 2012
Novel · 2019
Dusk and Ember
After a friend is murdered, nineteen-year-old Richard Issych sets out for the wake and a chance to begin again. Set against the backdrop of foundry work, motorcycle gangs, and small-town America, Dusk and Ember is a dark coming-of-age novel about the lives that break us and remake us.
Novel · 2012
There Are Reasons Noah Packed No Clothes
After a suicide attempt leaves him hospitalized, nineteen-year-old Richard Issych wakes in a psychiatric unit and begins a journey through despair, redemption, hope, and the struggle to find reasons for living.
Short stories
Selected stories placed in journals and anthologies.
- From the Depths, No. 16 · 2018
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The Span of Blood
Runner-up in the 2018 Haunted Waters Press Short Shorts Flash Fiction Competition
- New Kent Quarterly
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See in a Mirror Dimly
Winner, New Kent Quarterly short fiction contest, 1985