Holding Pain

Four brain bending short stories about unlucky circumstances and squandered opportunities to tell someone you love them, losing a parent, unruly neighbors who find horror in the truth, and crony capitalism and corruption in city bureaucracies. Their is parody and satire mixed in with materialism and spirituality. Characters that can be heroes or goats. Heartbreak Hill is a runners mental and physical journey through Boston Marathon after a horrific motorcycle accident. Kat the Bulldog details the shaddy goings on in the small brains of bored neighbors needing to escape the tedium of 40 years of marriage and an addiction to alcohol and opinion pages. Cadillac Epitaph will leave the reader aghast at the journey of a brilliant writer and philosopher unable to reconcile death. The City of Burroak is a satire on the current state of bureaucracy in any city or state in our blistering political culture. Enjoyable reads that easily propel the vested reader into each uncertain story. The ever so conscious author has created an enduring set of stories that demand further dialogue after the final page has been read.