The
bonds of blood are tested by two brothers who have spent the
first part of their adult life drifting away from each other,
closing the door to engagement and emotional connection. The
older brother, Jacob,
flees his small Tennessee hometown by seeking freedom in New
York City, where he travels deep into a labyrinth of sex and
drugs while fighting the fear over his homosexuality. His
entanglement with the ministry as his own personal rehab only
alienates him more from his true identity; wreaking havoc in
the lives of those closest to him. The younger conservative
brother, Noah, stays behind feeling shackled by familial
duties for their aging mother, but finds courage in the sorrow
of the past and a new way at looking at life that he never
believed he possessed by writing stories of his conflicted
family. Spanning the unbridled times of the 1970s and
the sovereignty of Reaganomics, each brother’s story becomes
an unflinching exploration of the way that we deal with what
most unsettles us and the families we inherit and build along
the journey.
Patchwork
of Me (Work in Progress)
Sometimes
the voices in your head are the ones that speak the loudest
and drown out any semblance of reality.
This is what Sara Butler, a thirty-something gal with a
small group of quirky friends in Phoenix, Arizona
discovers. She has a strange habit of listening to those
voices too much while clawing at an invisible rash which
plagues her arm. Doctors can’t find anything as her shrink
tries to get to the root of the emotional issue - but Sara
keeps too many secrets from him about her past in foster care
and instead makes up elaborate stories of a family history. She
does confide the recurring odd dreams she has of being on the
beaches of Maine, but she has never been to that part of the
country...or has she? Leaving her job over Christmas break (as
well as the man she has dubbed her ‘booty text’), she
embarks on a trip across the country with her two gay male
friends on the road of self discovery; patching her life
together as she learns how the future she plans for is
directly tied to a past she knew nothing about.
The
Cool Side of the Pillow (Work in Progress)
Zachery
Kleinmann lives in the elite world of New Canaan, Connecticut
and has left his accounting job four years earlier to be a
modern stay-at-home father. But as his son is starting
pre-school, his wife is passionately involved in
her own career, and Zach is knocking on forty years old, he
begins to wonder how he will find his own serenity and
define himself moving forward. Enter Ginger Charman, an
eccentric, free living actress who has dedicated her life to
bringing joy to children and keeping all those around her
young at heart. As Zach is pulled into her world and discovers
secrets about his new friend, he is not sure he'll ever be
able to leave the rabbit hole once he has fallen through - or
if he'll even want to venture outside of it again.
Short
Stories, Prose & Poetry
" Now I'm Up!" Off
The Rocks Vol 14 Editor Allison Fradkin
"Getting
Through the Recession" Loch Raven Review Vol.
VI, No. 1 Editors Jim Doss & Christopher T. George April
2010
"Cain
& Abel" Muscadine Lines: A Southern
Journal Vol. 26 Editor Kathy Rhodes April 2009
"08.08.08"
Word Catalyst Magazine Vol 2. No. 5 Publisher
Shirley Allard. Dec 2008 (poem)
"Economics"
Word Catalyst Magazine Vol 2. No. 5 Publisher
Shirley Allard. Dec 2008 (poem)
"History"
Word Catalyst Magazine Vol 2. No. 5 Publisher
Shirley Allard. Dec 2008 (poem)
"The
Computer" (short story)
"It Ain't
Over 'Til the Fat Guy is Skinny" (prose)
"A Mother’s Love"
(short story)
"My Godson"
Plays
It is Well With My
SoulWestminster Arts Center, NJ (stage version of novel above)
(Staged Reading) In
an age where the country is in an upheaval about gay and
lesbian rights, evangelicals running Washington, and closeted
gay men finding themselves in scandalous headlines, It
is Well With My Soul is a story of a gay male
model, caught up in the world of sex and drugs who makes a
deal with God during a bad drug overdose and becomes a
preacher. Even though he marries and
fathers children, he continues to fight with his “demons”.
Jacob Garrett wanted to make a difference with his life
and be known, no matter the cost to him, his wife, his
children or his congregation. This story follows
the rise and fall of one man who came close to having it all,
but pride and arrogance got in his own way.
"Cain
& Abel" 
"The
Business Trip"
It is Well With My
Soul
Westminster Arts Center, NJ (stage version of novel above)
(Staged Reading)
Invisible
Fences (Country gospel musical)
From Humble Prospects Garland, TX
Kids of U.S.A. (Children’s musical)
Garland, TX
No Mother to Love Her
Garland, TX
Dracula Bites at Dusk (Children’s musical)
Garland, TX
The Flooding of Bishop Falls (children’s musical)
Tour in Hudson Valley, NY
The Thousand-and-Second Tale
BMI Workshop NYC, NY
The Little Mermaid (Children’s musical)
Children’s Theatre Tour/NJ
The Blue Cat of Castle Town is
a musical based on the children's book by Catherine C.
Coblentz. Once in a blue moon there comes a cat
that is blue, singing the river's song, seeking - for you!
