For years, these stories have remained widely unknown. Until now.Tales never before told have now surfaced for the first (and perhaps last) time in this inaugural album of short stories. The tales cover a vast range. Death. Survival. Family. Aging. History. Hubris. Custer. Evel. DB Cooper, and beyond. The Broken World is a record of life – from fracture to restoration. With a few laughs along the way. Because that's the way life is.FINALIST - 2022 H...

Memories flow in waves and eventually they overcome us and we go under. In the end, we return home again, if only in our hearts and minds. The waves breaking here in this debut collection of poems and vignettes (approx. 120 pages) evoke the distant days of yore and a yearning for home. Yes, you can get there. But you can't go back the way you came. Ride the waves.

Based in part on personal journals, A Killer Story is a vigorous 5-day crime noir thriller with a memoir undertone. A takeoff on vintage detective fiction updated to modern media-hacking times. It's the morally strangled tale of a regular Joe (Teddy) who is coerced to take photos for a gang of vigilante New Orleans ex-cops who dispense justice and pain for profit and pleasure. He tries to skip town, is tracked down, and commanded to kill someone or his daughter will disappear, nev...

The Lost Carnival weaves together a novella and four stories that tell of lost love, life and death, and the limbo in between.The book begins where the novel A Killer Story left off a few years ago. Teddy Murphy is back. As are his bad habits. His marriage with Kate is up in the air after his visit to a brothel in Butte.In the title novella, we meet another Murphy: Rex. Whether related to Teddy Murphy we know not. Rex hits a tree skiing, is buried upside d...

A collection of short pieces documenting the revitalization of the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon. Includes short stories, poetry, news clippings, and in-person reports from locals. The narrator is Ferris Pontis, the nom de plume of Portland's Steel Bridge."Ferris Talkin' is a good read, highly recommended to accompany days on the shores and in the waters of the Willamette River . . . This short whimsical read uses humor, brevity, human interactions, and music to explore the ...