Literary Fiction

You can run away from your life. But your demons will find you. Stray Dogs and Lonely Beaches is a young woman’s journey from Bucharest to New York, Cancun, and Paris, in the pursuit of the love that has eluded her so far. Alina Ionescu inhabits a world that seems hostile, where dangers lurk at every turn, men are indifferent and elusive, and the relationships between women are fraught with jealousy, lack of compassion, and a whole minefield of malicious gestures.

Daniela is a psychologist in her forties , leading a grey life within the social enclave of Israeli émigré in the Silicon Valley. When she meets four woman friends from her home country, she is faced with disturbing suspicions and doubts that will leave their mark on her personal and professional life. A nuanced contemporary drama of adultery, envy rivalry and greed. Secrets are half-spoken and future plans formed as they discuss men and women, Americans and Israelis and life far away from home.

Full of disorientation and disillusion, revelation and redemption, loneliness and hope, When It All Went To Hell is a collection that will take you from the smallest of small town America to the far reaches of Africa and back again. These tales are inhabited by unpredictably real and absurdly honest characters that explore the complexities and simplicities of love and relationships, question what you learn when you step outside of your own culture and into another, and travel far, far down the extremes of (ir)rational thinking.

Jack Caufield is a modestly successful corporate lawyer, an insignificant cog in the Wall Street machine. When he learns that his biggest client may have been involved in a shocking conspiracy, his search for the truth is complicated by the knowledge that discovering it could cost him the career that he's spent his life chasing. Peripheral Involvement explores the absurdity of the modern-day financial industry, the current state of the American Dream, our propensity for self-deception... and baseball.

Alice thinks she’s accepted the loss of her ballet career from injury, until the day her boss asks her to befriend Lana, a pretty new company member he’s got his eye on. Lana desperately needs a friend, someone besides her mother, whose constant attention soon curdles into something more sinister. What follows is a friendship that risks destroying worlds they’d considered safe. Set amid the glittering backdrop of the professional ballet world, OFF BALANCE exposes the sweat and struggle, the mandate to sustain the illusion at all cost.

Daniel is a successful, full of himself architect - but is NOT happy with his life. At the age of 38, he seems to be running away from everything substantial, living his life on auto-pilot. He eats, plays with his children, works out, Something MUST give. With a split moment decision he leaves his home, his wife and his children. He picks up a mourning friend, and embarks on a long cross country hike. During this journey, Daniel takes a long, probing look at his life. He wrestles with his inner demons, faces his true emotions, and maps his various relationships. Nothing will ever be the same anymore.