projects in the hopper
A Kind of Tempered Glory : a Novel
A young man leaves his deteriorating home life, the escalating racial tensions, and Vietnam War draft he faces in South Carolina, joined by a new friend, Conteh who is fleeing the same. The two hide out with Conteh’s family in rural Louisiana. When the authorities catch up to the two, they plan to flee to Montreal.
Once he’s safe from prosecution and north of the border, the protagonist falls into a turbulent love affair with Nadège, a francophone émigré from Haiti. As their pasts catch up to them, their lives and love grow tense, precarious, and bittersweet with their future in the balance.
*** Supported by Canada Council for the Arts
Forthcoming via Penguin Canada, 2028
Mamas: Short Stories
Stories of maternal love, devotion, desire, demise.
Sample story: The Ex-Puritan Magazine - “Signpost”
Cover mockup by Neil Rimmer
I Come up from the Earth: Poems
A collection of poetry rooted in nostalgia and dying for deliverance.
Sample poems: Vallum Magazine vol. 19 no. 2 - “No Photos of Ralph”
tba (Western University) vol. 4 no. 1 PROPHECY: “We May Be So Tucked”
The Liberals: a Novel
Craig, a navy veteran, elite college grad and former congressional staffer now in his mid-thirties, returns to D.C. from sensitive, but not entirely secret diplomatic work in Central Asia. Although it has only been a year, he tries to resume his former life but feels like an alien impersonator. Anomic, disjointed, it is as though time has sped up, and every facet of Craig’s world has been altered somehow; is manufactured, now; shallow. The premises of American life that inspired his service and sacrifice are shifting under his feet. But has the country changed, or has Craig? Torn between two increasingly divergent sets of values and commitments, he finds himself in a dilemma with profound political and moral implications.