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A new take on a classic story. Concert reading, one day only: December 22 at 2 p.m. 

Ebenezer Scrooge, deep in the throes of dementia, asks Bee, his cantankerous housekeeper, to tell him a story. So Bee tells him a ghost story about a miserly old man who squandered everything in the pursuit of wealth, only to die a wretched old man haunted by three ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future. But Bee has plans of her own. While she's telling the story, she's robbing Scrooge blind, before she's kicked out into the streets. But both of them must come to a reckoning about their past, and come to understand the devastating power of greed and envy.Is it too late for either to find redemption? 

A comic thriller  

(debut novel)

James Morrison is just one fart-sniff away from being named partner at the prestigious consulting firm, Noble Management. The only glitch: he’s certain his new client is a murderer.

James & Jim, a nasty comic adult thriller, combines the page-turning juice of a John Grisham with the dark comic whiff of Succession. At 82,000 words, it’s genre-bending joy ride, with corporate skullduggery, dropping bodies, plot twists, and a breath-taking finale.

Management consultant James Morrison witnesses a brutal murder on another train on his way home from Manhattan. With no bodies found, nothing reported, he returns home, shaken, haunted. Maybe it’s just exhaustion. Alas, when he meets his new client, he’s convinced he’ll be working with the murderer. As he gets closer to the finish line, he finds himself vying for partnership against the human PowerPoint, Shari Perkins. James’s choice is clear: solidify his partnership, or risk everything and turn in the murderer. If he is indeed a murderer. Just how far is James willing to go? Tonya Perkins, a happy young  transit cop, a plump Columbo who longs to be Olivia Benson, is coming up with some theories on her own. Does James have a new ally? Or another adversary?

 A play in two acts.

A small theatre struggles through ragged tech rehearsals for a mystery by a playwright that no one seems to like. During the first preview, a raging storm plunges the theatre into a blackout, and the playwright is discovered dead. With the roads out, and nowhere for the audience or the theatre staff to go, they discover they're all stuck inside with a murderer. 

A Meta Murder Mystery doesn't just break the fourth wall, it moves it out of the theatre completely, and a few folks in the audience have something to say about it all. Immersive and wickedly funny. 

Despite its comedic structure and who-and-why-dunnit guessing game, A Meta Murder Mystery tackles several major issues, including gender stereotypes, me-too, and the age old lament: why do we do it? Recently featured in a concert reading by Legacy Theatre, Branford, CT.  

A novel for kids who are different, the adults they became, and the adults who cared.

There is a world, just beyond ours, where there is a window for every cat, and sunbeams to bathe in—even at night, when the moon is full. It’s called the Kingdom of Cats, and Davey, a precocious, head-strong boy of eight, knows it’s true, because his dead cat Flora tells him all about it. Far in the back of his closet, Davey listens to Flora as she spools out tails or this remarkable world. Unfortunately, the rest of the world thinks it’s kind of weird.  Davey, who used to be so bright and popular, is now looked upon as some sort of freak. Davey’s mother wants to help him navigate this world, protect him from the bullies, without squashing his spirit. But as everyone from teachers and friends descend on Davey, his family soon learns that the Kingdom might not be so imaginary after all.

Pussy Boy is told partially as narrative, and partially in the journal pages that Flora and he trade. Filled with vivid, fanciful, and even frightening artwork, the journal illustrates Davey's strong creative indolence and drive.