HOSANNA SINGS. In progress. After 30 years of being confined to mental hospitals and locked in the attic of a garage, Martha Miles emerges with maunscripts which tell the story of Hosanna - another child sent by God. Hosanna is twenty four, has an attitude and thinks her step-brother, Jesus, was far too nice. Her miracles are meant as lessons. The first is to turn gasoline into wine - disabling Southern California just before rush hour.
DUMB STUNT DEAD is a non-traditional ghost story. A woman is awakened from her midlife doldrums by the ghost of her high school lover who has died in a misadventure. The book deals more with mid life passages than rattling chains. It is essentially a fantasy.
US - A private detective with multiple personalities does battle with a modern day sociopathic viking goddess. Some of them fall in love with her while trying to bring her to bay while others are trying to pursue a path of normalcy and fall in love with their shrink.
THE COBALT BLUE ARMADILLO is about a moderately mad, but harmless, scientist who tinkers with DNA while the FBI and other governmental agencies try and find a way into the impregnable bunker he acquired when the Air Force abandoned a base in West Texas. Includes an attack on a supermarket by giant blue salamanders.
LIFE AT ARM'S LENGTH - A woman who becomes so involved in her fantasy life (a miniature model town that occupies a room in her apartment) that the links between herself and reality become severely strained and eventually part. She is an interesting character who overcomes ordinary problems in a bizarre way.
THE WALKING WOUNDED - A caretaker on a barrier island
off the North Carolina coast has his self-imposed exile broken when a suicidal
woman washes up on his beach. Together they discover strengths and go on a quest
to heal past wounds from traumatic childhoods.
FLEEING ARMAGEDDON - A modern day mal-adjust seeks
the present whereabouts of a community of Luddenites who fled to a jungle paradise
in the 1840's. The novel has two time lines as it tells their story and his.
SETTLING ACCOUNTS - The main character is a man who
believes a nuclear power plant is responsible for his daughter's death. His
obsession for revenge takes him through the ordeal of her illness and death
and provides a raison d'etre afterwards. ( 1st novel. Might make a Sunday night
made for TV movie).
SHEDDING THE COCOON. A novella about a computer programmer who accidentally stumbles into a file server used by organized crime to manage their accounts. Realizing her life is on the line, she steals and flees. In doing so she has to break out of the shy fearful life she'd been living and eventually has to face and fight the man they send to find her.
THE MANDLEBRATS - A novella for young adults. A group of children accidentally get swallowed up in an infinite mathematical set when a school science project goes awry. They meet a befuddled accountant, a meditative taoist monk, and a woman who spends her afternoons looking for Elvis.
TOO BIG FOR THEIR BELFRY - A comic novel in progress. Military project involving giant bats goes awry when they escape and are befriended by a former NYC high school teacher who has found refuge as a waitress in Cowboy Bob's Burger Barn.