The Boy From Under
Web Edition
Available on Amazon
Victor Daly has it all: a penthouse suite with a view of Vancouver’s False Creek; a high-flying career as a family court lawyer; recognition as an avant-garde erotic photo-artist; loving relationships—no strings attached; and his best friend TooBee, a Jack Russell terrier, to remind him how much he doesn’t want kids.
But the horrors of his subconscious are going to be unleashed by a report on the evening news. The world as Victor knows it is about to bend and buckle under the weight of a perverse new gravity, and he will be forced to investigate the grotesque truth of his own childhood in a search for his birth mother.
This psychological mystery is set in Vancouver, British Columbia. As Victor goes above and beyond, representing client Maria Selkirk in her hazardous divorce proceedings against her husband Laurence, he is drawn into the dark reality that has been the source of his recurring nightmares. What he discovers is the deadly truth.
When Kyle Welland inherits an antique tobacco tin containing love letters from the Victorian era, he sets off on a biographical adventure in search of his great-great-grandparents, Christopher Newman and Anna Armstrong.
His investigations take him from his home in Vancouver to the historic gold rush town of Barkerville in the fabled Cariboo; to Kingston, Ontario; and to Manchester, England. What he discovers in his genealogical quest is himself.
The Mural Gazer
Web Edition
Coming to Amazon in April
En route to perdition and divorce, retired journalist Buddy Hope takes a detour into Chemainus, B.C., and ends up as a ‘companion-handyman’, camped in the driveway of Bernice Sanderson and her husband Harry, familiar to most locals as The Mural Gazer.
This poignant comedy will see Buddy driven by his demons to the very edge as he questions the meaning of life and the reason for his own existence. The only thing keeping him from the ultimate choice are the disasters of everyone around him, which he can’t leave unresolved. Join Buddy and friends on their adventures inside the walls and on the streets of British Columbia’s Muraltown.
Over the horizon
The Feel of Gravity
Work in Progress
For release in 2025
A collection of short stories about the things that attract us—how we accept each other’s oddities, or at least learn to put up with them, when we are drawn into destabilizing orbits.
Realta Road
Work in Progress
For release in 2026
School teacher Fletcher Newman and his wife Doris planned for years their cross-Canada road trip in a renovated Rialta RV. It was to be a start to their long and happy retirement. But Doris succumbs to cancer before that dream comes true, and Fletcher decides to set out on his own, writing to his beloved in a daily log. The story gets wilder and weirder around every bend, after he picks up Miriam, a fugitive from injustice, or a paranoid schizophrenic—he can’t tell which.