The Breaking Point & Other Stories

The Breaking Point, 1991 winner of the Arrowhead Regional Arts Fiction Competition, features the emotions, expectations, illusions and delusions of mundane characters. In the midst of their ordinary lives there is a decisive, extraordinary event. 

For One Night of Love was birthed after the author read a story by French author Emile Zola. Though the story focuses on the development of a character named Jeremy, it actually terminates at another's breaking point. 

Episode on South Street is the story of an obsessive-compulsive artist and good Samaritan with an unusual disposition, driven by his own inner demons and good intentions. This story was translated into a short film that received accolades at the Erie Horror/Suspense Film Festival in 2004. 

A Brief Transaction is essentially a scene, a moment in time. Like some of the others in this collection it is characterized by the ordinariness that permeates life's terrain. The internal scenery is altogether different.