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This is an excerpt from a book I wrote. In the book, a group of high school kids who are barely friends or barely know each other, form a band. Through their love of music, they discover things about themselves and each other that they wouldn’t have known otherwise. This chapter is near the beginning, Continue reading Less Than Perfect – excerpt Chapter 4 This is an excerpt from a book I wrote. In the book, a group of high school kids who are barely friends or barely know each other, form a band. Through their love of music, they discover things about themselves and each other that they wouldn’t have known otherwise. This chapter happens half-way through the Continue reading Less Than Perfect – an excerpt Prologue My brother Rudy is sinking in Little Badger Lake. The water’s clear on this warm spring day as a cold winter day, so I can see him as he plunges deeper and deeper. His arms are reaching toward me as if I’d dive in after him and haul him to the surface. Air bubbles, little Continue reading Slip Away – Novel Excerpt If only you’d listen up and act like a Continue reading Charm School Confidential Tony wasn’t the biggest boy in class but he soon realized that winning was not about size but action and intent – if you went in first, with enough fury and gestures and with absolute certainty of winning, the fight was yours. And so a fighter he became, with every success proving (yet again) his was the only way. He could beat any boy in class but it was a few simple words that had him beaten Continue reading More Bloody Words
Editors’ Choice Award The year I graduated from high school is the same year they put a man on the moon; and it just so happens that I turned seventeen that summer of 1969. Now, these two events might seem to have no relationship to each other, but as I look back on that summer, Continue reading Declaration of Independence Jody gripped the basketball and eyed the basket. As always, the target seemed impossibly high and far away from where she stood, stiff-legged and sweating, at the foul line. The seventh-grader lined up the shot, willed the ball to go in, and pushed off. The ball missed the hoop entirely, arcing toward Continue reading Sweet Thirteen |
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