Works in Progress

All works on this page are in various stages of development.

Material Things

Status: Drafting

Genre: YA Sport/Contemporary

Sixtus Novak views his career as a professional chess player seriously. Some say too seriously. When Sixtus and his rival Karim Filali both qualify for the Candidates Tournament, Sixtus resolves to finally defeat him and show that preparation and study make the player, not intuition and a casual air.

Weinachtgurke (Working Title)

Status: Outline Complete

Genre: YA Contemporary/Cozy Holiday

Brakeville, Michigan has fallen on hard times. Restaurants dominate downtown with little to no economic diversity and people are beginning to lose all morale. Councilwoman Freya Applebaum decides to introduce a moral booster over the holidays by embracing Brakeville's German roots with a Pickle Hunt. Instead of children searching for a pickle on their Christmas trees at home, Freya will hide it somewhere in town and the older students will search the town for it. The festivities culminate in a Yuletide Gala, bringing tourism and cash flow back to the town.

Panacea; or On the Edge of Sodom & Gomorrah

Status: Outlining

Genre: NA/Adult Sci-Fi Thriller

In the near future humanity evolves, developing poisons unique to each persons' body. Some of these poisons kill, some paralyze, some produce party drug-like effects. Instant chaos reigns as people mistakenly poison each other, causing mass delirium and deaths. The newly created US Department of Poison Control seizes control and reunifies the country. However, small pockets within cities and larger swaths in rural areas remain under the control of charismatic leaders promising lives of plenty.

When a skittish young man appears in Herod's nightclub and various poison effects are neutralized, Herod realizes that with this man's Panacea he could corner the market on pain, pleasure, and profit. The trouble is, the US Department of Poison Control wants him back.