I‘m a fiction writer living in San Diego, California. Currently I’m finishing a collection of connected short stories set in my little pocket of town—North Park. The book is called WHAT HAPPENED HERE, and spotlights a two-block area, all the quirky neighbors that reside there, and a major incident that happened here thirty years ago. The stories are from the points of view of various folk who live here, how the incident that happened affects or doesn’t affect them, and their own dreams, goals, and problems. Even though these are typical city dwellers that don’t know each other too terribly well, their lives start to overlap as the years go by and they start to get to know each other a little. Their thoughts about other folks in the neighborhood are illuminating as well as funny in that what they know is based on guesswork from the details they see about their neighbors.

I’m also about to send out a collection of flash fiction called THE WHACK-JOB GIRLS. The title comes from one of the stories included and the collection highlights, well, some pretty whacky gals.