WRITING FOR A CAUSE
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CHILD Z
February, 2024
Leonie is a hopeful mother-to-be pursuing “sim surrogacy”—a new service using female chimps as surrogates. Mai is a high school senior fighting to end sim surrogacy and free chimpanzees under corporate control. When their paths meet and conflict reaches a breaking point, both realize they have everything to lose.
STRANGE FACES AT THE WINDOWS
August, 2022
When U.S. Space Division agents show up on the moon, Alister Pratt knows he’s in trouble. To avoid jail, he and his boss use company connections to board a ship leaving the moon for Proxima, where the crew encounter something that tests what it means to be human.
November, 2016
Angelica is in the hospital, the result of a hate crime. Jax must break the news to Dad, a man prone to hallucinations. When Dad learns that his daughter has been hospitalized, he insists on going to see his friend Ms. Jakintsu for help. The only problem: Ms. Jakintsu isn’t real. To embark on this journey with his father, Jax must open his mind, and his heart, to an unfamiliar world.
Available at Wead Library in Malone, NY
October, 2014
Frank Hartman is going to prison, which means his organs are now for sale. Frank meets a cryptic old man in the neighboring cell while a mysterious guard meddles with Frank's case. Desperate to avoid harvesting, Frank relies on advice from his big sister, Jane, who works for the nation's largest harvesting company. But without Jane by his side, can Frank get out in one piece?
Available at Wead Library in Malone, NY
December, 2013
Two of Danny's stories appear in this short story collection featuring 32 writers with ties to Western New York.
(currently out of stock)
August, 2022
This collection of dark small-town vignettes follows a cast of characters in Parryville, tucked away in the northern reaches of rural upstate New York. In Parryville, everyone knows everyone and there's nowhere to hide. Cows outnumber people and the lives (and secrets) of residents are intertwined. Meanwhile, the town's ghosts keep close watch over it all—and sometimes interfere...
Note: Ghosts of Parryville is an updated version of a story originally titled For the Love of Mary Brennan (2012).
