Yes or No (MoonHowler Press, 2023)
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Over 35 years ago, Daniel bought his high school girlfriend Penny a pregnancy test. He gave her a note asking her to circle Yes or No to tell him the results. She circled Yes, then disappeared from his life.
“Life never gives you shit without taking something in payment.”
Now, after a hard life that has left him confined to an assisted living center and battling COPD, a woman named Alicia claims she is the daughter Daniel thought Penny had aborted when she left him.
“Life never gives you shit without taking something in payment.”
As they await the DNA test results to determine whether or not Daniel and Alicia are related, old truths are exposed and new bonds are formed. But always, Daniel remembers the promise of his abusive father …
“Life never gives you shit without taking something in payment.”


The Teacher (MoonHowler Press, 2021)
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Andrew Clausing is a teacher who has lost nearly everything. His wife left him. His teenage daughter hates him. He drinks too much. The only things he has are a love of teaching, his relationship as a mentor to his students, and a secret affair with another teacher who happens to be married to a state senator. When one of his female students mistakes his kindness for romantic interest, Andrew is faced with losing the few things he has left in his life.