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THE VOLCANO GOD

Upmarket, dark-quirky, cultural commentary

THE VOLCANO GOD is a 90,000-word darkly comic upmarket novel about a man who tries to vanish—and fails spectacularly.

Bill Lee suffers from a crisis of identity—to fit in, reinvention became his poison. In the middle of a divorce, he opts out completely. He vanishes. Bill runs from Maine to Hawaii and ends up living inside the crater of Diamond Head. To kill time, he collects garbage: fast food clamshells, wrappers, SPAM labels. He starts writing on the trash—litter origin stories, character descriptions, personal jokes, missives—and hides the scraps around Waikiki beach as a private art project.

People start finding them and paying attention.

A life-raft of misfits hunt him down. The world's shyest private eye. A seven-foot giant. A slippery magazine publisher searching for his next Bukowski. A homeless matriarch who reads the stories as religious prophecy. They track him down and all end up trapped together during a violent Pacific hurricane.

One of them is murdered.

Bill has to choose: submit to the mythologies they've created about him or vanish again.

HURT

Literary, phenomenologic, supernatural horror

HURT is a 95,000 word literary horror novel exploring the phenomenology of pain and family.

“I wish I could take your pain away.” – every good mother and father ever.

For most, that wish is a performative fairytale. For Alton Fine, it came true. Every sore throat, broken collar bone, tattoo, and menstrual cramp of his three daughters became his own. Every broken heart.

As the girls grew older, bolder and increasingly entitled gliding through life without pain or struggle, he knows them only as The Witches. They become unrecognizable, careless and selfish. He is forced into heavy self-medication and suffering. His wife is complicit. Suspecting one of the daughters has an undiagnosed life-threatening disease, it is time to come clean.

The three sisters Fine are called home. King Lear, but the kingdom is a curse.

The reveal cuts deeper than a simple supernatural wish-come-true mystery with a twist. The truth requires the revelation of a series of murders, a retired psychiatrist with an obsession, a cancer sniffing dog, and a crooked Penobscot tribe harbor master named Coraline Ninepence.

HURT is set on Clem’s Neck, a bone-shaped peninsula off the coast of Maine. “The Neck” is an old fishing village repainted to look like an old fishing village by from-away wealthy gentrifying interlopers. It has its own tensions and pains to wrestle.