Victims of extreme trauma are invited to a group therapy session to share their experiences in a safe setting. However, as their stories are told, an unsettling truth is revealed: they may all be connected in their misfortunes. Now, they will be forced to confront their former torments in a whirlwind of therapy.
Danny 30, is a combat veteran with a lifetime of harsh experiences. Struggling to make use of those experiences, he makes his living as a private investigator. After agreeing to help an old friend, Lilah, find her mother, Kay, Danny finds himself at the mercy of a cult-militia.
A short documentary about the homeless in Harbor City and the social issues surrounding them.
An alien woman crawls out of the earth and discovers a lonely astronomer who helps her return to the stars before a band of nerdy conspiracy theorists can capture her.
My Writing, Producing, and Directing work up to 2019.
A cursed janitor is forced to choose between his supernatural duties and saving an innocent child.
Four friends return from a road trip. As they drive home through the desert they're confronted with disaster, which leaves Loren alone and stranded. As the desert threatens Loren's survival, her life becomes more imperative than the mystery surrounding her friends.
(In Production)
Victims of extreme trauma are invited to a group therapy session to share their experiences in a safe setting, but as their stories are told an unsettling truth reveals that they may all be connected in their misfortune, and will be forced to face their former torments, in a hurricane of therapy.
(Contracted Work)
An addict returns to her small hometown for a fresh start, but her life is destroyed when her daughter mysteriously disappears. A year later she uncovers clues to her daughters disappearance, but her home town turns a cold shoulder to her and she's forced to follow the disturbing clues only a mother could.
(Spec Script)
A high school summer love results in a boy’s accidental death, but his jealous love doesn’t die, it returns to kill anyone that becomes romantically involved with his ex-girlfriend.
(Spec Script)
("The Lingering" prequel)
In a small town in the secluded Appalachian Mountains a deputy kills the sheriff, his beloved older brother; unfortunately his brother doesn’t stay dead and the deputy is forced to sacrifice his own soul to fight his brother’s growing army of enslaved spirits.
(Spec Script)
To save her dying fiance, a surgeon experiments with death and discovers the secret to immortality, which sets the Grim Reaper free from a prison like abyss. She is then forced to choose between love and preventing a 21st century black plague.
(Spec Script)
A Wall Street yuppie befriends a schizophrenic bum whose delusions--a dorky tax accountant, a cynical mailman, and an arrogant 1950s police officer--team up to catch a serial killer.
(Contracted Work)
A soccer hero. A drug lord. Two childhood friends from a mafia infested Mexican village become bitter rivals and fight over the heart of their town.
(Contracted Work)
A modern day Casanova’s lifestyle comes to an abrupt halt when love interrupts, but before the wedding one last fling could end in gruesome death.
(Spec Script)
The Lingering are souls without bodies. When spirits of an isolated town capture a greeting card writer’s girlfriend he must become a body without a soul, to save her.
An introspective, vivisected, and respected ghost, Jack, rallies his zany ghoul graveyard compadres to help two socially inept humans fall in love. As the romance builds between the fleshies a secret from Jack’s past forces him to choose between his existence as a ghost and the last thing that connects him to the human world..
When a twelve-year-old timid girl, Becca moves to a haunted house with her parents, the spirits in the house awaken unstable powers within her. With the help of a reclusive neighbors’ knowledge of the supernatural, Becca uses her new abilities to try and save her family from the spirits.
A mysterious past plagues a mentally unstable girl who confines herself to her home for the safety of herself and others until a friendship develops with her neighbor who discover they are equally depraved; together they face their psychoses with drugs and blood.
An alien woman crawls out of the earth and discovers a lonely astronomer who helps her return to the stars before a band of nerdy conspiracy theorists can capture her.
When a captive man realizes escaping is absurd he must endure torture from a psychopath to keep his dignity.
Three friends on a hiking retreat are drawn deeper into the woods by a deadly sound.
The poems in this book are a reflection of sober and impaired experiences. The artists who have contributed illustrations were purposely given no direction. Their work is their honest expression of my reflections. Words are abstractions and many times they are not enough. Meaning may be lost, but in art the feeling is always there.
One day the Earth will die
Any proof that it ever existed
Will be washed away
In the sea of the Universe
So let's hold on tight
Like a sled ride in the winter
And let the ride warm our hearts
I generally lean towards horror stories, but I write outlines, pilots, and do coverage for all genres.
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