The Novels
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Beneath a painting’s layers of soot and varnish, a young widow stands in the light of dawn, a sword in her hand, waiting three hundred and fifty years for someone to ask where she came from.
When conservator Lila Yonoktova cleans an old panel of Judith and Holofernes, she finds it unfinished, unsigned, and hidden under varnish meant to make it look worthless. Its owner, J. Dinman, a wry, slightly depressed fifty-five-year-old corporate executive, has walked past it for twenty years. Now he wants to know who painted it, and why so many risked so much to keep it.
Judith is about what we inherit, what we hide, and what remains when the lies are cleaned away.
Now available in Kindle and Paperpack
When conservator Lila Yonoktova cleans an old panel of Judith and Holofernes, she finds it unfinished, unsigned, and hidden under varnish meant to make it look worthless. Its owner, J. Dinman, a wry, slightly depressed fifty-five-year-old corporate executive, has walked past it for twenty years. Now he wants to know who painted it, and why so many risked so much to keep it.
Judith is about what we inherit, what we hide, and what remains when the lies are cleaned away.
Now available in Kindle and Paperpack
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The Ad Game
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The Fashions of the Times
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The Sunday Brunch |
In advertising they say sex sells. But when Max Cohen takes a job in a Pittsburgh ad agency he learns that sex kills too.
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When Jake Gold was ten years old, his grandfather gave him this advice - "never lift a man so high that he can piss in your face."
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They called it the Brunch of Fools. A monthly Sunday brunch - an afternoon of drinking, conversation, and more than just a little bit of drama.
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Schnippets (Short-Short Fiction)
Dead Charlies (first appeared in Skive)
Okay, so you Google Charlie's name and page after page of Charlie W obituaries appear.
Paris (first appeared in Toasted Cheese)
Then there was Paris. We were miserable. It was very hot. We were in a little hotel on a street off the Rue de Magenta...
The Glamour of Business Travel #1 (first appeared in Skive)
He stands with one hand on his hip, a Heineken in the other, at the very northern edge of South America, flirting with the two-dollar whores...
Susquehanna (first appeared in The Write Side Up )
An old man stood alone on a high bank of a slow moving river, gazing over the water. Presently a young man approached and stood beside him. The old man did not stir. Instead, he continued to stare fixedly at the green-gray water...
More Schnippets
Okay, so you Google Charlie's name and page after page of Charlie W obituaries appear.
Paris (first appeared in Toasted Cheese)
Then there was Paris. We were miserable. It was very hot. We were in a little hotel on a street off the Rue de Magenta...
The Glamour of Business Travel #1 (first appeared in Skive)
He stands with one hand on his hip, a Heineken in the other, at the very northern edge of South America, flirting with the two-dollar whores...
Susquehanna (first appeared in The Write Side Up )
An old man stood alone on a high bank of a slow moving river, gazing over the water. Presently a young man approached and stood beside him. The old man did not stir. Instead, he continued to stare fixedly at the green-gray water...
More Schnippets