“The Reading List” is an uncensored blog memoir about an English professor going AWOL on the profession she thought she would love, while her corporate high-flyer father takes up reading for the first time. With each new book she discusses with her father – introducing him to diverse literary masters from Joyce to Hemingway to Faulkner to Atwood – . . .
Panflick is an online novel in the manner of Tom Jones. It deals with the limits of marriage, limits of family, limits of religion and limits of life. Its hero is Adam Panflick (1936 -). Irony, iconoclasm, a Terry Southern edge and a Kubrick sensibility suggest its general drift. . . .
The cautionary tale of Buddy Best, Hollywood hack. . . .
What do you do when you’re a single parent who can’t make ends meet and the solution is staring you in the face . . . a solution you’d rather not take, but a solution nonetheless? You drop your pride and become a part of The Pride. . . .
“Chuck” is a serial novel—a psych-thriller—about a famous artist—a troubled man—who manages to get by . . . until his mother passes. Interestingly enough, his reaction is not what he would have expected. He’s actually not dealing with it so well . . . and neither are the people around him. Sanity versus truth—which is which? . . .
Ride with Madness is set in the long hot summer of 1995. It opens with Helen Byrne, who yearns for personal freedom in her stifling marriage to the upwardly mobile Malcolm. Her compulsive involvement with ex-prostitute Carla and the flamboyant cult leader Addison threatens to tip all of them into the kind of madness where no one seems to have . . .
College and the years just afterwards are pivotal for many people, having adventures and establishing their lives. It was especially true for Randy Clark and his three girl friends. They are very different people facing very different futures. Can their special friendship survive the problems and distances of the real world? . . .
Ride With Madness—to date, at six chapters—is some very solidly-written literary fiction. The word that keeps coming to mind while I write this is "immaculate". With the exception of the opening few scenes, every word seems right—there’s nothing out of place.
The story begins when Helen, the taken-for-granted wife of a [more . . .]
Every now and then, I uncover a piece of literature that makes me utter the word, "Wow!" and I have to say that The Pride does that for me as a reader. It is well-written, with strong narrative and plot, with POV jumps that add to the story so far. Although some folks might have trouble with the POV shifts, [more . . .]