Counter-culture Stories

In a time of war and of the counter-culture Andrew doesn't buy into the American Dream and drops out of college. His search for awareness brings him far away from the consumer society to a type of terrestrial paradise where he finally totally breaks away from society, but where he still can find love. This is a short story - one shot deal.

A wealthy Black man, Malcolm Gordon, suffers from temporary insanity and believes he is going to start a revolution. He does not get far and wakes up incarcerated in a foreign place. Malcolm eventually realizes that he is on trial for murder, but everything seems a little off. This is because Malcolm is actually in purgatory, and his life is on trial. While Malcolm travels through purgatory and his trial unfolds, the reader gains insight into Malcolm's origin story, what led him to lose his mind, and the sins he must answer for.

A young woman embarks on a life-changing cross-country trip to face a family secret rooted in America's most turbulent decade. Layla James, a recent graduate and budding photographer, never knew anything about her father except that he named her for the iconic song by Eric Clapton. Her mother--steeped in a political activism that Layla rejects--kept their past shrouded in secrecy, and when she dies of cancer, she leaves only an enigmatic letter--the first in a series that will lead Layla through a cross-country network of '60s radicals and closer to the bombshell at the heart of her parents' past. As Layla makes her way from the East Coast to a commune in the California desert, she discovers more about friendship, love, forgiveness, and the personal repercussions of political activism than she could ever have imagined.