A work of fiction.

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"Los Angeles Man" is the story of Martin Dietrich, a music journalist who refuses to write the only story anyone wants from him: a memoir about his father, an infamous music-producer. When Martin has a compulsive tryst with his wife's erratic twin Laurel, she becomes pregnant and they're exiled from the Hollywood Hills to the outskirts of LA County. In order to support their imminent child, Martin finally agrees to write the memoir. By confronting the legacy of his father's failures and his own disastrous choices, he finds that his own path to redemption may not include forgiveness. Between the blighted immigrant neighborhood where he's landed and his old life, Martin must somehow find the elusive secrets to fidelity, fatherhood, and love.

Jonah Totentanz is a man with a number of frustrations: he has debilitating writer's block, he can't win back his ex-wife, Olivia, and his sibling rivalry with his idiot savant brother becomes remarkably one-sided after Samson becomes a world famous author and hires Olivia as his agent. Jonah hatches a plan to kill three birds with one stone which entails getting back his passion and wife by finding and turning over Samson's long-delayed second novel to Olivia. However, things quickly spiral out of control, leading Jonah to realize the skeletons in the closet that always prevented his life from being what he had thought he deserved.

In the Land of Perfect Bliss is a work of fiction set in Los Angeles, Fiji, and India, chronicling the lives of a variety of interconnected characters who struggle with forgiveness and identity amidst the chaos of certain real-life historical events.

A narrative nonfiction manuscript

A retired soldier and his timid girlfriend. Two teenagers who are underemployed and overaged. A man who knows what he wants but not how to get it and his ex who knows how to get what she wants but not exactly what that is.

What do all of these people have in common? They live in Westfield, New York, a town with just as many traffic lights as panoramic views of nearby Lake Erie and with about as many bartenders as schoolteachers. Everyone wants to leave, but nobody knows where to go.

Marine Biology is a cycle of short stories linked by a small town and a tragic accident, 34,000 words of hope leaving and anger arriving. Who knew a cookie sheet could cause such problems?

Fiction: Connie Drake is a private investigator seeking to uncover the mystery behind the death of a senator's daughter.

No abstract necessary

The Beautiful Dead is a novel that explores the lives of four Korean celebrities as they struggle to grow into their new identities, and encounter the supernatural.