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THE First Ten PAges
(Satire) 2024
After years of rejections, a down-on-his-luck Bronx author decides to write his next screenplay based on actual events – but local mobsters and corrupt government officials do everything they can to stop its production.
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THE RAT
(Fiction) 2023
Two childhood friends - on opposite sides of the law - use The Mafia and The NYPD as pawns to wage a private war against each other in their 1980s Bronx neighborhood.
Little Sticks
of the Bronx, 1977
(Fiction) 2022
Two Bronx cousins try to keep their childhood friend safe and their neighborhood thriving - in a summer burdened with a record heat wave, a blackout, and an infamous serial killer.
Little Sticks
of the Bronx, 1959
(Fiction) 2020
In 1959, a Bronx physics student, with dreams of the NASA space program, watches his young friend spiral into mental illness in the midst of vicious street gangs, mobsters, and paternal abuse.
Little Sticks
of the Bronx, 1969
(Fiction) 2021
Weeks before the 1969 moon launch, two men grapple with their life choices while dealing with the Viet Nam War, a changing Bronx neighborhood, and a friend’s psychological condition.
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Personal Debt
(Fiction) 2019
Returning a favor, Bronx lawyer Michael Zurilli travels to a small Kansas town
to defend Jack Kopland. Desperate for the medication for his dying daughter,
Kopland’s theft of the local pharmacy leads to the fatal heart attack of an elderly
woman.
The story becomes more about the grieving Zurilli - why he’s there, and his relationship with local sheriff - Bill Tilden.
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Cent’Anni
Arthur Avenue
(Non-Fiction) 2022
With a small college to the north, and a few streets named after past presidents, Little Italy was simply ‘Belmont’ on post-Civil War surveyor’s maps. But with the addition of a Zoological Park, a Botanical Garden and a hospital at its borders, Belmont was an enclave waiting to happen.