Coming of Age Stories

'Man In Debt' is a novella-length piece in fourteen chapters. Largely in correspondence form, it concerns a battle involving a wily borrower, his lender and their two firms of lawyers. The principals move from hostility to quasi-friendliness. Their legal representatives go the opposite way, with farcical results.

A teenager has problems with his family and friends, but things could have been much worse.

A meeting aboard a star-craft on a luxury curise to New Belgium leads to an affair of the heart that one of them, will never forget.

Pearl Singleton, a forest ranger at the Pemberton Wildlife Preserve, is going to show eighteen-year-old Shawn Mariano her Osborne Smoke Finder, all six varieties of New England ferns, a beaver dam, and something he never bargained for.

Everything begins somewhere... A very short story about how things got started.

Sir Bertram Utterside issues a series of pronouncements, not always entirely serious, on a variety of burning social topics.