I work on more than one project at a time.
However, there is usually one that dominates, one that gets priority. In those times that I cannot work on this project I continue on others that will, in time, become my focus.
1. Working Title: Duality
What happens when change has come and you’ve missed the memo?
What happens if you’re unable to make the decisions necessary to accommodate that change?
Who do you blame? What sacrifices do you need to make? Can you survive it intact?
This is an intimate portrait of a woman fighting to stay relevant to herself.
2. Working title: Eyes to Sea
I Regret
This is a longer work, wordier than both of the Mrs. Devlins put together.
The tone is different too, more serious, emotional. There are elements of surrealism mixed with the daily passions that often dominate our focus. Underlying it all, our relationship with religion, the loves of our lives, and God. Together, they define the why of our existence.
3. Working title: i to I
Not shy away from the big questions, this one will attempt to define who we are, as individuals.
Imagine for a minute if you’re destined to become the emperor of Rome, circa 53 BCE. Or perhaps you were one the million staving on the plains of Africa, either 10,000 years ago, or now. Or, you could be an eastern potentate’s recent capture, hustled into his harem, then groomed and primed for deflowering.
Haven’t you ever wondered why you’re you and not someone else?
But, you might counter, you’re a product of you parentage. Rather, think about it this way: your body is that product, but your mind, your soul, your essence, is singular on this planet. Everything revolves around you. Everything you know came to you via your senses. You might think you’re equal to all others (or might not) but, essentially, you’re stuck in that body by accident. That essence could have been anywhere.
If you’re reading this page, think how lucky you are to be able to in relative peace and safety.
4. A fantasy, working title: The Quiet
We temporarily inhabit but permanently inhibit
This one I’m writing because I like to read fantasies. I know that, at heart, they all (most, anyway) describe the human condition. However, in a fantasy, the tools available increase immensely. Keeping to the realistic is not required.
Yet, creating another, plausible, world is challenging. You need to create new rules then rigorously follow them.
So, after all that, here is the gist of this story.
Two Solitaires are born. One is discovered quickly, the other remains hidden. But they are inexorably drawn together and into the land’s woes. They are both the solution to the people’s plight and their destruction. Happily ever after is not a choice.
5. Working title: Leif and Olive
A love story, a quest, a tragic tale of two star-crossed lovers.
Set in 1890s Boston, well-to-do Leif meets penniless Olive and the fireworks begin. Not only are they on opposite sides of the tracks (in this case Boston Common), they are on opposite sides of the each other’s expectations. He doesn’t care to inherit the corruption-ridden money/business coming to him, she desperately wants to shed her poor ways, neither sees the downside of their determination.