Urban Townes was completed under the affects of unemployment. This 'purely' fictional novel takes place in a midwestern American town called Forest City. A majority of the novel is seen through the eyes of a struggling, short story writer who has few readers. What follows has been described as a novel with no direction. Told, also, through the eyes of acquaintences of the short story writer - Warren Teare - they begin to see him differently; or as someone who may not be all that he appears to be. Did he have the capacity to kill the local bartender who had gone missing? Was it a senseless...

Euclid's Boys League All-Stars is based on the actual achievement of a 1979 youth baseball team who finished that August summer with a 21-game winning streak and 5 tournament championships. This is a simple story when Jimmy Carter was president and there was no "team USA" to boost morale. These Fifteen 12-year-olds were able to bringa suburban community together in a surprising variety of heart-stopping games the pros would have been proud to watch. They were not christened the "Cardiac kids," at the time, in a local newspaper for nothing