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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
One of the First Things
Schoolchildren in Texas learn is how to compose a simple declarative sentence without the word ‘shit.” Attributed to Ted Cruz, [...]
Doctors Bury Their Mistakes
Lawyers hang them. But journalists put their on the front page. Ben Bradlee, editor of The Washington Post during the [...]
Music Hath the Charm
To sooth a savage beast – but I’d try a revolver first. Josh Billings, American Humorist.