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RANDOM ACCESS is a family saga extending from World War II through the early 1980’s. It encompasses the family of Sol Kirchener (by blood) and his alternate “family” Kirchener & Associates (the advertising agency of which he is founder and president). It includes many characters (only a few mentioned here), but each impacts one another’s [...]

BIOLOGICAL TIME CLOCK is the story of a young woman (Evelyn) who comes to the mythic French Quarter of  New Orleans in the 1960’s with a sense of romantic readiness. As she ambles along in the intermittent shadows beneath the wrought iron grill work overhead, she watches the jazz musicians just coming out of the [...]

WAGES begins in the sultry summer of 1961 on a small island (Poldock) off the South Carolina coast. Sylvie Shaker (18) believes she is pregnant by Clovis Tully (21). At his party, Clovis tells her he is going to New York to see his “Beatnik” friends and maybe become an artist. He has the little [...]