Welcome to my site. I am a freelance writer from Ajax, Ontario, specializing in screenplays and novels. I also contribute to LL Book Review.
My works explore the complications within us. I'm constantly fascinated by how small events often affect us, under certain circumstances, in differing and often dramatic ways. There is a distinct, private world within each of us, a private world I'll dare to touch with my words.
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SUBURBAN TRAPPINGS
A troubled city girl proves a disruptive presence in a suburban neighbourhood when left to manage her brother's grow-op.
SANDRINE SMITH hates the suburbs but requires a high school diploma to fulfill her parole obligations and avoid prison and the only school that will take her is one in a bedroom community east of Toronto. And so she must live with her older brother, OLIVER SMITH, who operates a sophisticated illegal marijuana grow operation. While she takes advantage of the recreational benefits, the labour impedes her schoolwork. She enlists the aid of TREVOR WATSON, a neighbour and classmate whose overprotective mother, CARRIE WATSON, openly disapproves of the girl. Her situation deteriorates rapidly when Oliver has to go away, leaving her to run his grow-op.
Sandrine’s inability to deal with pests and other botanical challenges convinces her to risk involving her gardening expert neighbour, JACK BRIXTON. Jack is struggling to deal with an impending layoff and the sudden disappearance of his grief stricken wife, ALICIA BRIXTON. He is unaware that Sandrine’s presence—she is the same age as their daughter who died from a hit-and-run less than a year before—spooked Alicia. He is also unaware that Alicia is pregnant so he treats his wife’s absence casually, as she’s behaved in such a way before. His stoic indifference to his wife’s disappearance inspires another neighbour, ELENA BRADZINSKI, to persuade an uncertain and unstable Alicia to let her adopt the baby. Things erupt when Oliver returns to discover what his sister has done.
Drama - 110 pages.
NO HARD FEELINGS
What if you were overseas and found out your office pool won the lottery, and then rushed home only to discover you'd been shut out of your share.
Impetuous JIMMY TEEPER is on an unannounced and unapproved vacation in Rome. After getting ripped off by a local scam, he discovers his office pool has won the lottery. Fifty million dollars between ten people. He rushes back—first class, of course, and not before shopping a bit—only to find his colleagues, including his girlfriend, LUCY PICCOLO, have squeezed him out of his share. Worse, Lucy has moved out of their house and into a new condominium near their boss and his putative rival, TRENT GRUBER. Vengeful Jimmy’s antics summarily lose him his job, his home, his girlfriend, and any chance at five million dollars.
Coming to his aid, plain DANA WATKINS, a now former colleague who has nurtured a crush on Jimmy for a long time. She was not part of the lottery pool but her ambition and resourcefulness are what he needs. Using her contacts in and out of the office, Dana builds a case for Jimmy to take the others to court. The case is so strong they go after all fifty million. However, Jimmy begins to struggle with his greed and his longing to mend this relationship. The court’s decision, while clarifies the financial losers and winners, makes it hard to tell who’s come off best in the end.