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Faded Flowers, Wilted Weeds

2026 · 173 pp.

This story collection spans a century. The McCorty and Lavetti families move through rural Ohio and the Bronx, Hearst Castle and the cemeteries of Belgium, the kitchens of Pasadena and the parking lots of the present-day Rust Belt.

Pill heads and the children who try to save them. A projectionist whose resentment becomes violence. A war survivor confronting his brother's death. Foster kids and the houses they're abandoned in. Two families moving toward each other across a hundred years.

A book about whether bitterness, once it enters a family, can ever be broken.

“Eleven diverse and atmospheric short stories from an emerging writer of literary fiction.” — Gregg Sapp, Reedsy Discovery

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Pointing Skyward

2026 · 38 pp.

The quieter companion. Poems and short prose meditations on craft, fatherhood, friendship, addiction, faith, and the long search for purpose.

A library book aching to matter again. A father's warm milk at a dark kitchen table. A coffee shop that held a town's whole memory, sold off and paved over.

Different room. Same house.

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Firecracker

2026 · 32 pp.

In Northeast Ohio, the cold arrives like a verdict. Devin McCorty is fifteen, caught between a father who found God and a mother who found something else. She is homeless now, addicted, and sleeping in a tent in Akron. The first freeze of the year is tonight, and Devin can't sit still, plotting a rescue.

The opening story of Faded Flowers, Wilted Weeds — a collection following two families across a century, and the bitterness each generation either overcomes or carries forward.

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Jellybean

2026 · 24 pp.

In rural Ohio, an eleven-year-old boy is choking on a piece of bubblegum, alone in his kitchen. The ghosts of his dead family can only watch.

Three lives converge in a single afternoon — a child fighting for air, a neighbor boy fleeing a violent home, an elderly widow wondering what is left to live for. What happens next is not what any of them expects.

A piece of magical realism from the forthcoming story collection Faded Flowers, Wilted Weeds.

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