Outlaw:

How Not to Hike the Pacific Crest Trail

 

In 1983 I hiked the Pacific Crest Trail, and it will change your life.
Outlaw: How Not to Hike the Pacific Crest Trail (78,000 words) is the story of an unprepared city kid dropping into a wilderness he ill-understood. Outlaw is also a Pacific Crest Trail origin story. The PCT was not yet a continuous trail, and my journey followed the most severe winter in the history of the Pacific Coast. Mostly, though, Outlaw is the story of what happened then and what it means today.

Thirty Days in Camelot

Thirty Days in Camelot is both a murder mystery and a story of personal loss and recovery. It is the story of Michael Milano's journey to understand the life and death of his brother, while an LAPD Homicide detective, Travis Carl, attempts to find the murderer. While Detective Carl methodically interviews witnesses and sifts through the evidence, Michael meanders through the underbelly of the Los Angeles where his brother lived, spurred on by his grief and the whims of his indecisive emotions. 

We All Just Stood There

We All Just Stood There, a 60,000-word collection of fourteen short stories that explore resilience, loss, and connection across the overlooked backroads of America. The stories are literary, character-driven, and often refuse to go where they're supposed to go—favoring the unexpected over the tidy, and the deeply human over the easily explained.

What I Wanted to Hear

What I Wanted to Hear, a volume of 61 post-pandemic poems, is for readers who appreciate contemporary poetry that is gritty, accessible, and searching.
The volume is split into two halves. The collection opens with part one, Working from Home (WFH), 32 poems that seek insight or understanding from the world as it appears.
The second part, What I Wanted to Hear, is 29 poems about desire and longing. They represent engagement with a world reluctant to play along.