Drama Books

A ten year old girl whose parents want her to have a cell phone for "protection" instead insists on adopting a one year old Dalmatian, who was trained to fight. She gets her way, and Prince, the Dalmatian, wants most to be a fully accepted member of the household, but he has acquired some...

Alex Jackson has severe depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. It’s an occupational hazard from being a paramedic. He’s having nightmares, getting irritable with patients and co-workers, and drinking to excess. As he reaches rock bottom, he embarks on a journey to improve his mental...

A physically and financially washed up, major league baseball pitcher is taught a new pitch by his father. The story follows him through the next season.

Better Days Are Coming is part of a series of short stories about Faith, Family, and Friendship. I chose to write fiction-short stories instead of a memoir because certain people didn't want me to mention them.  Another factor was my exposure to well-known fiction writers such as Dan Walsh and...

An abandoned Dalmatian puppy is taken in by an elderly man. Together they explore the open land near the river.

A kindergarten boy develops a relationship with an elderly female teacher, who has a curious and perhaps lethal past.

The gunfight at the O.K. Corral, the Wild West’s most famous gun battle, lasted just thirty seconds with approximately thirty shots being fired. Yet that thirty seconds has resulted in many accounts, edits, mythological posturing entertainment productions, and deflating “expert studies.” In...

A usually quite competent, but now bungling hit man "accidentally" meets and falls in love with the wife of his next intended victim.

“Blasé Eight” is an ensemble piece which primarily follows eleven people from different walks of life with five stories which initially seem unrelated. One could also say that it’s the story of Propicio; formerly a rural hamlet on the outskirts of a big city; now suburbanized. Some might...

a lonely man thinks about taking his own life