I’m currently exploring avenues of publication for my collection of short stories,
An American Name, and a standalone short story, Souillement.
I’m including an excerpt here for “Margaret,” the first story in An American Name. As someone who loves music and relationships, “Margaret” is about a struggling musician who meets the star football player from her old high school at her show in Boston.
You can read Phil Collins Urban Myth now, but you’ll need to sign up for my email list to read my funny short plays.
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An American Name
A collection of short stories about perceived similarities and differences between ourselves and the world that surrounds us. What the characters think is a reality may not actually be, and they must discover whether the walls they put up to differentiate themselves are actually keeping out someone similar to them.
Some of them are funny short stories, others are cringe-inducing, because of mismatched politics, or how someone struts into his aunt’s house, on the wrong day, shatters his reality.
Click below for a sneak peek at the stories in the collection and a sample.
Short Stories
Phil Collins Urban Myth
A father tells his daughter the Phil Collins Urban Myth. Did Phil Collins watch his friend drown? Was Phil Collins a frumpy drummer who became a pop star? What is a good beach day in England?
This funny short story is something you can read your kids, while you’re bored at work, or if you’re googling “In the Air Tonight.”
Souillement
Amongst Nazi occupation, Gregorie’s politics handles the pandemic of fascism
in a surprisingly familiar way.
One-Act Plays
I wrote my comedic sketches in remission, in the spring of 2018. I had a creative stretch and
I brainstormed over seventy ideas and wrote about ten.
If you sign up for my email list, I’ll give you access to three of them:
Pablo Picasso Goes Home
This historical farce explores what happens when the famous artist arrives home for the first time in a long while. I’m a huge fan of historical fiction, and this play crafts a fictional family the real-life artist never had.
I loved writing this.
Guys’ Book Club
Maddie is so impressed that Dicky has joined a reading club for guys, but when he leaves something in her car, she interrupts the club to find it is not what she expected.
The Irish Riviera Chamber of Commerce Presents: A Presidential Beer Tasting
When I was living in Los Angeles, I watched some shows at the Actors Gang in Culver City, curated by Paul Provenza, in which actors in the audience participated. Inspired by that experience, I wrote this, in which a simple public beer tasting turns into an audience argument more appropriate for a cable news network.
My Homemade Pizza
One of my hobbies is making pizza. Here are some of the pizzas I’ve made.