Fiction
Dialogues on the Beach
Jim and Tony were inseparable best friends in college in the early 1970s. Jim was in love with Tony; Tony already had a steady girlfriend, Rachel. Against all odds, Jim and Rachel became close friends over time. Fast forward twenty years, and the three spend two weeks at the beach together, facing lingering tensions among them and a new crisis in Tony and Rachel’s marriage. Enter Joe… will he be able to take Tony’s place in Jim’s heart?
Fiction
Spirit’s Tether
It’s 2015, and Tony and Rachel’s son comes to live with Jim in Baltimore while starting a graduate degree in music. A year of mourning, a season of coming out, family drama, and a meditation on love’s manifold complexities.
Fiction
The Boxer's Mask - August 2022
Paul Truscott, recently retired from a career in academics, takes a two-year sublet in Rome. By chance he meets Aurelio Valenti, a spellbinding young stage actor. As Valenti’s career starts to take off, in a time of political upheaval and public health crisis, he negotiates the stereotypes and projections of Truscott’s circle of English and American expatriates, as they strive to understand their ideas of Italy and its people.