I write nonfiction for work and fiction for myself. Traditional, experimental, short stories, novels, novellas, play, screenplays, and poetry. Writing is an art form with limitless dimensions, and I believe we have just begun to scratch the surface.

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Stage Play Productions:
"Fire and Ice" (2001, Goucher College): One-Act. Two writers with a past have twenty-four hours to come up with their best screenplay ever.
The Heroines' Party (2003, Goucher College): Full Length. Six extraordinary women must convince a young ingenue that life
is worth living.
Produced Screenplays:
Cantaloupes, Cantaloupes (2002): Short film adapted from the stage play. Intrigue and romance follow six people in a 1940s bar.
Published Short Fiction:
"Saved" (forthcoming from Infinity's Kitchen, 2009)
Awards:
Honorable Mention Region
II Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Playwriting Awards for one-act play, "Cantaloupes,
Cantaloupes", 2001
Novel in Progress: "Little Girl, Last"
"Little Girl, Last"
focuses on a world that is just beginning to repopulate after a painful disease has killed half of the population. The narrator, Housemen, presents several ‘historical’ texts that show a vast conspiracy surrounding the cause and spread of the epidemic, the decline of society, and the circumstances leading towards the ‘cure’ for a disease that only affects women.
Housemen comments on several ‘primary texts’, including: the diary by a young girl who has been illegally cloned and lives in hiding; the memoirs of a narcissistic manic-depressive fiction writer; a self-published anonymous retrospective on the breakdown of society following this massive, lethal epidemic; and a police interview with a man who is somehow mixed up in the middle.
As the story unravels, we discover that Housemen is the one living in hiding, and he is writing a critical assessment of himself—as a father, a best friend, and as patient zero of an epidemic that changed the world.
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