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Sample Chapters

The Grass Through Pavement chapters linked below were published as short stories in literary journals.


Trigger warning: some chapters in this novel are sexually explicit.


Prologue: Crater

1st runner-up for the 2022 Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Writing Award. Published in Line of Advance Literary Journal.

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Chapter 12: The Brassrail Shitkicker's Bar

Published in The Deadly Writers Patrol in 2020.

Chapter 4: Fingerbowl

Published in The Sunlight Press in 2020.

Chapter 16: Bringing It All Home

Published in the Proud to Be anthology by Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2021. (print)

Performed as part of a WordTheatre worldwide presentation, 2021. (spoken word)

Grass Through Pavement is a work of fiction. The names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents in this book are either the product of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.


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