WIP

SCREENPLAYS:

THE UNDESIRABLES

When a naive Kansas social worker is sent to a eugenics laboratory on Long Island, she discovers the dark underbelly of the movement to eliminate “undesirable” people from the American bloodstream, leading her to question everything she thought she knew.

(Dramatization inspired by true historical activities of the American Eugenics Association in the 1920s)

Genre: Historical Fiction Drama, 101 pgs

REVERSE THE CURSE

A Chicago sports reporter is used to losing—his leg, his job, his MLB dreams—but when a werewolf bites him in the ass, he sets out to change destiny.

Genre: Comedy/Horror, 93 pgs

NOVEL:

WHEN THE WIND BLOWS COLD 

“If you take us somewhere else, we lose our character, our history–maybe our soul.”

 ~ Dakota: A Spiritual Geography

A sensitive North Dakota tomboy has more to fear than the onset of the Depression with its grasshoppers, cyclones, and ghosts: she’s afraid of becoming her mother.

MEMOIR:

BENEATH THE SURFACE OF NORMAL: A MEMOIR IN POETRY

A mother’s journey with her daughter who has I/DD and is non-verbal.

SAMPLE – 

RED WAGON SOLDIERS

Automated transports let in, drop off, pick up

Red wagon soldiers roll, one by one

Past disembodied echoes from plastic playgrounds

Down sterile paths of florescent tunnels

Red wagon soldiers flanked

By shell-shocked parents wheeling

IV poles, careful to keep connected

The half-full dangling drip of solution

Shoes squeaking under the weight

Of red wagon soldier’s survival

Packs on their backs: Diapers, bottles,

Snacks, carrying paper-cut admission

To Laboratory, to Neurology, to Radiology

To hard laboring machines rasping

Secrets, decoding mysteries living

In the skin of red wagon soldiers

Needles, incisions, intensive, cares

Holding close to their chests badges

Of Red Wagon Soldier Bravery —

Courage stuffed into bunnies and bears.