The Books

This is not a story of whimsy, but of life. Man up and live it. Against the backdrop of the Ozarks, a young boy named Billy Dee struggles to man up to life. His mother is a drug addict, his father in prison. It was never going to be easy. After a succession of events renders him the ward of a shirttail relation, Madighan, he comes to terms with an ancestry he could never have imagined. One filled with mystery, magic, and the cost of destiny. A world knitted together with Southern grit, apple pie, vintage comic books, and a love of the Blues. A world blessed with Beaudreau the bloodhound, Boo to his friends, of noble birth, mind you. A true genre crossing adventure that refuses to be pigeonholed.

An historical novelette of life in post-WW2 of a dry and dusty mining town in decline. A snapshot in time as this small town dies and a nation moves towards the future. In the great American southwest there are hundreds of small worn-out towns. Many of them are now bona fide ghost towns. But at one time they were inhabited by real people who lived, loved, and died there.

The fictional town of Sueños Amargos is one of them. It's a short read, but filled with characters, who are quite real in my fertile imagination. I hope you will give them a chance to live in yours.

Come and meet Rupert C., a tortured soul of battle, now the town drunk. Meet the Argentine, who is he really? Spend time with the Widow Elle, having her own troubled past. Get to know Texas Joe, who likes to read Zane Grey westerns and, of course, Cecelia, the last of the founding family whose stage stop had become the heart of the town.