• Afternoon at Père-Lachaise

  A couple touring a Paris cemetery discovers that their small differences might not be so small after all.

• The Wink

  An engaged accountant becomes so obsessed with a woman he glimpsed on a TV rerun that he drives overnight to Boston to find her.

• The Japanese Garden

  A young housemaid in California becomes dangerously fixated on the beautiful woman living next door.

• Last Days of John Billingsley

  A journalist profiles a daredevil tightrope walker preparing to cross the Grand Canyon, only to watch him die before finishing it.

• Driving Out

  A grieving man explains, with startling calm and intelligence, exactly what led him to drive his car into a crowd of strangers.

• That One Marine

  A young veteran drifts through small-town life, failing at everything, as the people around him lose patience.

• Then it Hit Me Like Ten Elephants

  A man looks back on the moment his teenage girlfriend revealed something about herself that he didn't know how to handle.

Drafts

• Badlands

  A grandmother caring for her granddaughter one summer grows increasingly convinced that the charming neighborhood boy is responsible for a string of animal killings.

• Football Season

  Novella—in progress; first chapter available.

• One Summer North Dakota, 2025

  A directionless man uproots his life to Chicago and slowly, awkwardly, begins to find his footing.

• I Want the World to Stop

  Draft—in progress.

• Home Run Danny

  After a string of small failures, a young boy is taken out for ice cream by his father, who tries to explain why life isn't fair and why that's okay.

• Molly’s Toys

  A teenage babysitter grows fascinated by the surprisingly dark and intricate world a six-year-old girl has constructed for her dolls.

• Hello, Patagonia!

  A man discovers his wife doesn't believe penguins exist and can't stop himself from wondering what else she might be wrong about.