A fourteen-year-old boy from a troubled family sees the girl of his dreams at a high school assembly and immediately falls in love. She is beautiful and devout. She has a perfect family. Dale, on the other hand, has parents with, well, problems. As Dale matures, he begins to pursue the pious beauty but his contrary nature and knack for mischief leads him into controversy. As the novel nears its end, Dale has to make a decision: will he conform to the expectations of his conservative hometown and church to win his love or will he stay true to his own ideals.

Youthful Indiscretions is a collection of fifteen short stories written by the author before he turned thirty. The stories cover a wide range of themes and ideas but most of them center on family dynamics and social conflict over race and sex.

Town Hall is a novel about the comical and dramatic events that take place in the town of Buffalo City when President Carter arrives to hold a town hall. The novel is told from the perspective of five characters: Millard Greeley, the fatuous publisher of the newspaper who also happens to be mayor; Byron Mors, Greeley's nemesis, and the town's mortician and an intellectual who suffers from erotomania; Dale Smith, the young reporter who has his story of the big event censored; Carol Greeley, the mayor's wife, who is admired by her fellow Buffalonians although they wonder why she married...