Back roads. Gerry Daugherty is a best-selling horror novelist making his way cross country promoting his book. He prefers to drive it, helps him soak in the real world. While driving through rural southern Minnesota on a hot summer day, he picks up a peculiar woman and her mentally disabled daughter who were walking alongside the old rural route he is taking. It turns out to be a nightmare that even he couldn't write about.

This story came about when i was living in very rural southern Minnesota. I was on my way into town, it was hot, and there was a rough looking woman walking along the road with her daughter. She was holding an umbrella up over her daughter and they both looked pretty miserable. They both looked pretty harmless, so i decided to pick them up and give them a ride. mistake. the woman was looney as hell, and her daughter was even more. She told me she lived in the opposite direction i was planning on going and she'd be willing to do anything to get her and her daughter there. I dropped her off at a gas station and wished her luck. She got pretty angry with me and i was a little frightened of that look she gave me. So...I began to form this story around it. 

Too many times, women are victimized in this genre and very rarely are men. I thought i would switch the tables on poor old Gerry. A man of the world, living a care free life and then getting a taste of the true dark side of hell.

My first published work, "reflect shuns in a broken mirror" will be re-published uncut with a new title and new cover and a more affordable price.
a large variety of beat poetry from my teen years on up. The new working title is "the broken mirror reflected: a new version of old beats".
This will be available from amazon.

This project has been completed as a script for a movie, but after going through it, i decided it needed to be told through a book first, movie later.
I have been working on this since i was 14. It is the "rough" account of a mother's life from birth to present day and how she has survived somewhat impossible odds. Born on the floor of her parents cottage in Rangi Point, New Zealand as her mother died, running away at 16 to find her own life. Marrying a white American serviceman against her Maori families wishes and traveling abroad. She survives abuse, abandonment, culture shock, and 3 marraiges.
i wanted to tell this story because i wanted to show encouragement for those going through something horrible can pull themselves out of it.
Still a work in progress, i have more research to do and a lot of editing.