Dream State

Description of new work

SELECTED WORKS

Chapters of a novel
Excerpt from the novel in progress, ELYSIANA, in HABITUS Journal, Fall, 2008.
Set in the islands of New Orleans in 2132, Elysiana portrays a world where the gap between rich and poor is the gap between living forever and dying too soon---
essays
"The Art of Opening Up," and "Miracle at the Spotted Cat."
Stories in OXFORD AMERICAN, Fall 2008, and Fall, 2009
What Gets Into Us: Stories
A series of short stories set in a small North Carolina town, following the same characters from the staid fifties, through the upheaval of the sixties, to the social transformations of the present day.
book
Dream State
The characters in these stories love and hate the dishevelment and chaos and delights of South Louisiana--they know they should leave, but they don't want to--