I've had the following short stories published:
Hot Chocolate, Happy
Beautiful, The Chrysalis Reader
Cornucopia of Canned Hash, Studio One
Magno Girl And The Thelonius Monk Machine, The Wisconsin Review
The Great Anomaly, Pearl
The Tender Of Tomatoes, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Quercus Review
Click on a story to read it. Big thanks to all the publications that were nice enough to put me in print.
I've also written a few novels. The details concerning two of them are below. If you want to publish one of these books, send me an email.
Tommy Prato has some problems. His older brother, Tony, is a New York City gangster, and his secret love, Elizabeth, is the granddaughter of family enemy Lou The Squid—and a cute little waitress named Aroma who's hot for him might just be an evil creature from another world who's been sent to steal the Earth's ocean.
Fortunately for Earth, before Aroma can carry out her plan she needs to experience love.
Will Tommy uncover Aroma's plot to slurp up the sea before he falls in love with her? And can he trust Elizabeth—who he currently loves—to help him, even though she may be fighting against his family in a war over the distribution rights of fried rice balls?
Things get more complex when Tommy is approached by special government agent code-named Martin America of the Confidential Ultra Force. Martin is charged with protecting the country from aliens and other people of suspicion, and he blackmails Tommy over his brother's criminal lifestyle in exchange for help with destroying both girls.
Can Tommy save Aroma and Elizabeth from the clutches of the merciless Martin? And can he rescue civilization while figuring out which girl he loves best?
Can Magno Girl use her special power, the Gaze Of The Guilt, to save the world from the poisoned pizza being produced by the Barrister of Incomparable Commerce and the Dark Lord of the Overgrown? Or will the fooki-laced pizza continue to cause Americans to over eat and shop incessantly for consumer electronics?
Can Magno Girl survive her drunken mother's tirades concerning the state of her unfertilized ovaries? Can her biker boyfriend, Ron, overcome his habit of selling stolen thesauruses and return to his position as a prominent graduate of a culinary-ninja school? And will Ron's plan to overcome Magno Girl's hatred of commercialism be realized, or will she forever shun endorsement deals from major manufacturers of shampoo and pesticide while other superheroes sellout and conspire against her?