My book titled ARTWORK consists of six different products of imagination. Three of the works are in one unique style, two of the works are in a more traditional short story style and the last work is prosaic drama.

The first three pieces, "High Finance", "A Bloody Mess" and "Gold On Blue" are social witicisms in the form of fictive journalism. The pieces use imaginary figures who embody and experience a broad reality that is the writing's central issue. The presentation is anecdotal, pictorial and stark in the way of a photographic essay. I describe this style as storytelling in the manner of Picasso's "Guernica." "High Finance" focuses on Maxey, a well-groomed investment executive who, during the course of one airline journey home, speaks about a financial world that needs to come back to earth. "A Bloody Mess" tells of Sly M. Fox whose career in disaster litigation, like lawyering for the most part, requires some sober introspection. "Gold On Blue" introduces Lupe, a young associate professor who struggles with collegial disdain and student distrust in a California landscape. Lupe's safe-harbor is his winsome Romantic faith in nature and the will of the wind.

The fourth and fifth pieces, "Clipped Wings" and "Driving," are traditional short stories beginning and ending full circle. The aesthetic is precursory to the style used in the first three pieces, but the characters in these one episode tellings come to comprehend a meaningful reality whereas the first three pieces are directed more purely at the reader. "Clipped Wings" is the story of a boy's confrontation with domestication and the frustration that evolves into rebellion. "Driving" is an extension of the frustration in "Clipped Wings" but the characters are in high school and the scene moves from the day to the night.

The drama "A Crazy Dream" is metal literature somewhat unplugged. The story is a sensitive and sometimes shocking look at the effects of political and philosophical life on young men who are melancholy, clever and oppressed. The story is cinematic in presentation and unambiguous in manner. The tale is a simple account of three young men who take responsibility for change and action in their immediate world by avenging three different injustices. This piece, in a way, is a further extension of "Clipped Wings" and "Driving" but the characters have reached young adulthood.