A Perfect Time to Be in Paris
Published in Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly, 2002

Empty Gardens
Originally published in The New Quarterly, 1999

I think it's a good idea to venerate your idols, even the ones with feet of Demerol.  Here are some essays about people who helped shape my thinking, my writing, and at times my life.  Other idols and early influences include F. Scott Fitzgerald, Angela B. Davis, Glenn Gould, Janis Joplin, Mother Theresa, Marcel Proust and the Hardy Boys, Frank and Joe.

James Dean's 25^th Memorial Anniversary

Sylvia Plath and Winthrop-by-the-Sea
Published in Literary Traveler.com

Robert Craft and Anton Webern

Radical Modern: F. Scott Fitzgerald and New York
Published in Nashwaak Review

I'm an inveterate traveler.  Sometimes I stop and write about what I think about what I see.

Turkey Point
An Author's Wilderness Adventures

CUBA: Eight Days, Three Men and A Rooster
(an abbreviated version of this article was published by Xtra! and Capital Xtra! in 2004)

A Mystery Lake, An Idyllic Cove

You've Never Seen!

Writers write a lot of things that go nowhere in their efforts to be successful writers.  (Of course they become fodder for other things, but that's another story -- literally.)  Along with two unpublished novels, I've also got a handful of scripts written for television and film.  Here's one of my faves.

Click here to read an excerpt from the teleplay script to  Purge

Due to size and for easier reading, this script  is in PDF format, which requires the Acrobat Reader.
 

Published Shorter Fiction and Articles:

Nashwaak Review (Volume 22/23) 2009
Proust's Way--Searching for Proustian Moments In Paris
Don Juan & Men (MLR Press) edited by Caro Soles, 2009
Don Juan and the Queen of the Gypsies
Boy Crazy (Cleis) edited by Richard LaBonté, 2009
This Is Not Your Country
Nashwaak Review (Volume 20-21) 2009
Radical Modern: F. Scott Fitzgerald and New York
A Casualty of War (Arcadia Books) edited by Peter Burton, 2008
Isle of Women
Nashwaak Review (Volume 18) 2007
Cup and Saucer
Bent on Writing (Canadian Scholars Press, Elizabeth Ruth, editor) 2002
Queen for a Day
Bend Sinister (GMP-UK, Peter Burton, editor) 2002
A Perfect Time to Be in Paris
Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly Vol. 3, no. 2, 2001
A Perfect Time to Be in Paris
Suspect Thoughts – A Journal of Subversive Writing 2001 (web)
Adventures in Paradise (Parts I & II)
The New Quarterly, Vol. XIX, no. 1, Spring 1999
Empty Gardens
Instinct, Summer Fiction Issue, 1998
This Is Not Your Country
Skunk Premiere Issue, Aug 1992
Ten Resolutions of an Art Fag; My Great Weekend in the Pits – (parts 1&2 of a triptych)
Xtra! The Church Wellesley Review, Sept. 1990
Jerry Falwell Goes To The Promised Land
Dalhousie Gazette, 1977
Truth And Beauty: A Fairy Story in the Tradition of Oscar Wilde

Published Poetry:

Maple Tree Literary Supplement (Issue #2) edited by Amatoritsero Ede
Six poems: Humpback, Dissolve, Flown, Beggar, midstream, Bloor Line, North Beach CA
Canadian Literature, No. 182, Autumn 2004
Small Furies
(EX)CITE Journal of Contemporary Writing, Premiere Issue, Spring 2001
Burning, remembering – 6 Dec ’91
Paperplates, Vol. 4 no. 1 Spring 2000 (web)
Arrangements
The Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature, Issue No. 34
Autumn Lessons
The New Quarterly, Vol. XVII, no. 3, Fall 1997
Friends; Father
The Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature, Issue No. 20
Aria
Ariel, Vol. 24, No. 3, July 1993
winter garden
LiNQ , Vol. 19, no. 2, 1992
Wednesday Morning Launderette
The White Rose, Issue 24
Barque of Metaphor
Ammonite, Issue 5, March 1992
new song/old rag and bone
Nexus, Vol. 5, no.1, Spring 1992
time and the nature of being; vacation incident
The Antigonish Review, No. 85-85, 1991
Turn
The New Quarterly, Vol. X, no. 4, Winter 1991
for our mothers