What happens when a man’s ambition is greater than the technology of his day can accommodate?
When post-Civil War entrepreneur John Kirk Ormsby thinks outside the box and decides to run his cotton gin around the clock, the results are not what he’d hoped.
Read my short story The Cotton Gin at the Penmen Review
When you’re different from your family and all the teenagers you know, life can be very tough.
Read my short story Tough at the Penmen Review
Think you’ve got problems? Kurt’s at the end of his tether trying to keep it all together, his lover is suicidally depressed — and it’s literally the end of the world.
Read my short story After the Caldera at Master’s Café Blog
Work in Progress
RAILROADED
A naïve, Southern small town married girl, with beauty and an incredible singing voice, seeks to advance her set-aside career hopes through a torrid mésalliance with a powerful man, whose links to corruption and a secret government black ops project nearly cost her everything — including her child.
Barbara Abrams’ remarkable vocal talent made her locally famous even when she was in high school, and her beauty still turns the head of nearly every man she meets. Executive secretary to a powerful railroad company magnate, she moonlights on weekends as a jazz singer in a local club. She’s settled into a comfortable life as wife and mother, highly appreciated by her community. But when a former flame unexpectedly appears at the jazz club, old passions are rekindled, and a second chance for fame and fortune tempts her to abandon everything. Ensnared in a web of desire, ambition, government corruption, and secret black ops projects, she must decide if the price she’ll have to pay for another shot at her big dreams is worth it.
Read an excerpt from “Railroaded” HERE.
OUR FATHERS, WHO…
When she discovers evidence of abusive pedophilia at a Southern Catholic boarding school, a devout nun must choose between culpability and confrontation.
Sister Mary Frances faces many challenges as the first-grade teacher at the venerable Holy Family School in coastal Wilmington, NC. Not only must she deal with an administration focused on profit rather than results, but she must also try to educate her students about behavioral responsibility – and teach how them to read in the bargain. When she discovers that a boy acting out in class may have a dark reason for doing so, all signs point to exploitive behavior by the powerful few that run the school. However, exposing the crime comes with great risks. If she follows her conscience, she risks losing her reputation, her vocation – maybe even her life.
AI-5
Determined to find her missing stacks robot, a small college assistant librarian quickly learns that inter-departmental rivalries can turn dangerous and deadly.