~ Fiction ~
Original Stories and Screenplays
An accused witch is banished from her home in Portland, Maine. A young socialite in New Orleans dabbles in magic to get rid of a rival. An acrobat in a traveling circus learns her greatest enemy lives in the mirror. An Irish immigrant may have brought malevolent faeries with her to the New World. A lumberjack in the Pacific Northwest suspects a monster lurks behind the enormous trees. A Colorado gold miner find himself trapped in the bowels of the earth, no matter how many times he tries to dig his way out. A psychiatrist in Chicago suffers from insomnia and loses track of where reality end and his nightmares begin.
Written in the literary tradition of gothic horror, The Witch: And Other Tales of the American Gothic is a collection of strange occurrences in 19th century America. These seven stories provide a reflection of the country's growing pains during a time of transition and exploration of the secrets that lurk in the shadows of the world we think we know.
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The Witches of Westbrook - Dramedy, 1 hour
Lifelong friends and practicing witches Stella and Jasmine find themselves at a pivotal moment: Jasmine becomes a widow and Stella, the mother of teenage twins, goes through a divorce. With nothing to lose, the pair move to the magickal town of Westbrook to reconnect with their own power. But fitting into a town full of witches with a strict dogma and an aversion to outsiders is going to be much harder than they expect.
Listen to the audio drama:
The Book of Jane - Comedy, 1/2 hour
(Second Round, Austin Film Festival 2024)
New to a city she despises, playwright-turned- PR consultant Jane begins carrying a notebook to organize the constant stream of thoughts about her disappointing job, her over-achieving family members, her hot therapist, her former best friend, and her impending divorce. Since she moved to support her ex-husband’s career, Jane doesn’t have to stay in the nexus of absurdity and contradictions that is Los Angeles, but those contradictions might be just what she needs to discover who she truly is.
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One of Them - Thriller, 1 hour
(Second Round, Austin Film Festival 2024)
As the country prepares to enter World War 1, a medical student with a unique gift for healing returns to his parents’ Mennonite farm when his sister murders a man she refers to as “one of them,” leading him to grapple with the truth about family, faith, and limits of pacifism in a holy war between good and evil.
Calida – Procedural Drama, 1 hour
A former fire goddess turned private investigator for supernatural crimes investigates a wave of killings linked to soul-draining demons, only to realize the war she abandoned centuries ago is about to reignite. The demons aren’t just killing—they’re preparing to rule.
Godmother - Short, Drama.
(Semi-Finalist, Lady Filmmakers Festival, 2022)
On a hot summer day in St. Louis, a young woman might miss her own birthday party while caring for - and protecting - her four-year-old niece.
Godmother
Growing up. One day at a time.
Bottom of the Lake - Horror Feature
(Semi-Finalist, Hayes Horror Fellowship, 2024)
Sarah sees ghosts – lots of them. Most want her to deliver messages, but the weight of their demands has made her a shell of herself and sent her down a road of depression, alcoholism, divorce, and guilt. When a failed suicide attempt traps her in a state of purgatory, Sarah’s sense of linear time is broken, and she sees the ghosts of others before they’ve died, leading to confusion and panic as she struggles to tell the living apart from the dead. Sarah must return to the nexus of good and evil to keep the man she loves from crossing over too soon – and to find out what these beings really want from her.
Kingdom of Sin - Thriller, 1 hour
New Orleans, 1898. Gabriel is the son of poor Italian immigrants. Lucy works as a prostitute in a brothel in the Storyville district, where prostitution and gambling are completely legal. With unprecedented opportunities available to an orphan from the wrong side of the tracks, Lucy sets her sights on becoming a Storyville power player and enlists Gabriel as her partner. Together, Lucy and Gabriel test the limits of ambition and an uphill pursuit of the American Dream against a backdrop of jazz, race riots, Voo Doo, religious reformers, corruption, the Mafia, and a string of unsolved ax murders.
My Generation - Short, Musical
After thirty years in the business, Tom wonders if it’s worth staying in Los Angeles and hustling work as a musician and songwriter. But leaving the industry would mean leaving his friends and apartment in the beloved neighborhood of Laurel Canyon.
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Vanessa - Short, Thriller.
Vanessa has found an unusual way to have it all: a clone. But when the experiment that created the double is deemed a failure and calls for clones to be returned, the other Vanessa is not willing to give up so easily.
Hit - Short, Thriller
A depressed man finds an unusual way to provide for the ex-wife he betrayed.
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