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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
Suppose You Were an Idiot?
And suppose you were a member of Congress, but I repeat myself. Mark Twain.
Beer is Not a Good Cocktail Party Drink
Especially in a home where you don’t know where the bathroom is. Billy Carter (1977).
The American Republic will Endure
Until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835.