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Winner of
2018 Finalist in the Adelaide Literary Award.
the 2011 Mighty River Short Story Contest
the 2010 Hackney Literary Award
the books
A grief-stricken candy-striper serving in a VA hospital following her brother’s death in Viet Nam struggles to return home an anonymous veteran of the Great War against the skullduggery of a congressman who not only controls the hospital as part of his small-town fiefdom but knows the name of her veteran.
Calvin Samuels is a public defender with a passion for sticking by the underdog. His clients are desperate men and woman with desperate cases. Like John Rogers. Although Samuels saved him from a life behind bars, he couldn’t save his life. Within months of his release, Rogers’ body is fished from the Ohio River.
Blog
You Can’t Fool all the People all the Time
But you can fool enough of them to rule a large country. Will Durant, The Lessons of History
Words of Wisdom
I wish someone had given me way back when instead of having to learn it the hard way: Beware of [...]
His Mother Should Have Thrown Him Away
and kept the stork. Mae West.