Some samples of my work

EXCERPT FROM Soul of the Shard
This is still very much in the first draft stage, but click here to read an excerpt of Soul of the Shard, sequel to Spirit of the Stone.  Still a work in progress, I don't know when I might complete this book, but it has some old and new characters whom I very much enjoy writing thus far.

​POEMS

A poem is emotions
Swirling violently around in a sweet sea of words.
They twist, they turn and are thrown about.
They say different things,
yet sometimes seem the same.
People try to grasp their meaning
like gulls on the water grasp for food,
but they fail to understand
the masked message
hidden deep beneath the frothy white waves 
of tranquility.


To see a sample of some of my poems, click here.

Unleashed is a dark short story about magic's reemergence in the world, and the Demons that desperately want to destroy it so that none can stop them.  This is an excerpt of that story.
Unleashed

IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT...
The result of a challenge by a teacher to create the longest sentence we could starting with “It was a dark and stormy night…” (circa 1993)

It was a dark and stormy night that brought in the haunting festival of spirits where people dressed in such lavish costumes as ghouls and goblins, witches and warlocks, sorcerers and wizards, and, of course, the five or six brave fools who danced around in the ever present drapery of the festival symbol, the dragon, with its bright red and flashy green, the sparkle of sapphire and the gleam of amber, the jingling silver scales and sharp golden teeth, and the unforgettable cold and angry flash of deep blue eyes overlooking the whole assembly of mixed creatures shivering in the mist of the rain, starting with each thud of thunder, and glowing with every flash of pale blue lightning that shoots across the black sky as though trying to point out this myriad assembly to the unwary who might find themselves lost in the horrors of this autumn storm.