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Iconoclasm

Coming soon! Calaveras Press

Released 2024

It’s snowing in Wellington. It shouldn’t snow in Wellington. Thomas can’t bring himself to go home after work. It’s not clear why.

Thomas wanders the city, looking for meaning, but can’t find it anywhere. Meeting people from his past brings him face-to-face with the present.

This short novella questions whether the structures of the world are capable of reckoning with the crises we face.

iconoclasm  / aɪˈ kɒn.ə ˌklæz.əm /

noun

(from Greek: εἰκών, eikṓn, ‘figure’ + κλάω, kláō, ‘to break’)

1.   the social belief in the importance of destruction

2.   the action of destroying that which is cherished

Indiaman

Paperback Calaveras Press

Released 2024

The transit of Venus, in which Venus passes between the Earth and the Sun, occurs in couplets eight years apart. These couplets don’t return for another century. If you miss them, you miss them forever.

In 1760, astronomer Matthew Sangster leaves his family in Dublin to observe the transit of Venus from India. Despite vowing to return within three years, Matthew’s journey is perilous. Delayed by events at sea, the deserts of Arabia, and the Seven Years’ War, he misses the first transit. To salvage his career, he decides to wait in India until Venus returns.

Matthew spends the next eight years attempting to survive in a world beyond his understanding. As empires collide around him, the heavens move slowly above. All the while, he struggles with doubt, temptation, and a vengeful warlord intent on killing him. With Venus drawing closer, Matthew’s options are to succeed in his task, or return to his family with nothing.

Drifting in New York City, Lincoln searches for something, anything. His military service has left him nihilistic. Human connection only comes from a prostitute in Brooklyn, Edie. Aware he’s a cliche, he falls for her. It’s June, 2014, and ISIS cloaks Iraq in black. “It was all for nothing.” Desperate, he decides—as only someone so dislocated can—“to find the most powerful person in the world and tell them I matter.” Success or death, nihilism is his greatest weapon.

Joker

Kindle Unsolicited Press

Released 2021

The Bloom

Paperback and Kindle Unsolicited Press

Released 2019

If all the world is indeed a stage and men and women merely players, then The Bloom is the play. In the ancient tradition of epic poetry, The Bloom is told in a lyrical series of nearly 3,000 lines of poetry; inter-rhyming couplets, an unbroken stream of double-helix verse, the genetic rhyming code of Life’s immense vanquishing of Time. It is ultimately a spiritual journey, both individual and collective.