Writing / The bookshelf
The novels I've been working on, posted in full, one chapter per page. They're drafts, and they'll keep changing. When a chapter has an earlier version, you'll find it tucked under the chapter so you can see what moved.
At Coney Island's Dreamland in 1904, a nurse who keeps premature babies alive in glass incubators is caught between the lion tamer she's promised to and the quiet electrician who notices everything, while the park burns its way toward the fire of 1911.
Christmas Eve, 1999, in Ocala, Florida: a teenage pot dealer watches the shadows in his pool hall start moving on their own, and has one week to turn his crew of misfits into the only thing standing between his town and something very old waiting in the springs for midnight.
In a future where people live five hundred years and every minute is scheduled, a straight-A cadet draws the one ship nobody wants and finds it full of squatters, jazz, poetry and a captain who's quietly steering them all toward the sun.
A casualty notification officer, ninety-some doors deep into other people's grief, accepts a cup of tea from a widow who knows exactly how to take him apart.