Books
15 Stories
On June 28th, 2007 I began publishing original short stories to this website. I published a new short story every two weeks for an entire year, ending in June of 2008. This project came to be known as “26 Stories in 52 Weeks.” “15 Stories” is a collection of 15 of those short stories. Where are the other 11 stories? Ten of the stories from “26 Weeks” make up their own separate novel, known as “Probability Angels.” The last, for reasons that are no longer very clear to me, became a children’s story, known as “Mindy and Barkley” which can be found above.
Probability Angels
Matthew Huntington’s problems seem to keep growing. Not only is he seeing things in garbage cans but his mentor doesn’t think he’s working up to his full potential, his best friend can’t offer any solace but drunken confusion, and his wife is dying in Central Park. Of course, the fact that Matthew himself died over two decades ago isn’t helping things. And then things start to really go wrong. Come explore the world of Matthew and Epp and see what a samurai from Feudal Japan has to do with the course of modern physics, what a two-thousand year old Roman slave has to do with the summit of Mount Everest, and what a dead man from Brooklyn has to do with the fate of the world.
The Letter
Naming your main character Tom means something in American literature. The Ghosts’ of Sawyer and Joad haunt that character from page one. But in The Letter, instead of hiding behind the memorable characterizations of past ‘literary Toms,’ Joseph Devon attacks this notion of the proud, stoic, and resourceful hero in modern times. After an unspeakable accident leaves Tom Quint without a shred of hope, he must reluctantly explore not only the world he passes in his ragtop, but the life that has passed him by. And like his literary predecessors, Quint’s reluctance to adapt is what makes his struggle to survive so compelling.
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