A collection of ten short stories exploring the relationships between fathers and their children. The good, the bad, and the awful.

Snippets:

A dying single father, in one of his last acts, gives his sixteen-year-old daughter a beat-up pistol. “If you ever find yourself up shit creek, then here’s your paddle.” (“Tender, Like My Heart”)

Arriving unexpectedly, a man takes his twelve-year-old son out of school for ice cream. But the boy squirms as his father asks too many questions about his estranged wife’s love life.
(“Pocketknife”)

STATUS:  Six stories finalized, two published, four in progress. Final manuscript expected by Spring 2022.