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Published in 2018. Finalist in FIRST BOOK category of 2019 Sask Book Awards.

book 1

Sister Margaret

"My morbid fascination rises every time someone is singled out, a guaranteed front-row seat to every execution." [click for full story]

Mental Dental

"Tears are flowing. I’m gagging. 'Oh c’mon, boy, you got diapers in those pants?!'" [click for full story]

First Confession Error

"You then simply list your sins, starting with your mortal sins of murder, rape, incest, adultery, theft, and false witness ..." [click for full story]

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Published in 2022. Finalist in CITY OF REGINA category of 2023 Sask Book Awards.

book 2

Perfect Hair

"Every morning I wake up with the dream of having perfect hair: either a sexy David Cassidy shag or perhaps long, shiny flowing drapes with a dead-straight part in the middle." [click for full story]

Lost Vegas

“'Where the HELL’s the Earth?!!' is the last thing you want a passenger to yell when you’re at the wheel of a speeding car." [click for full story]

Pig!

"Like everyone else who grew up in Saskatchewan, I too have a sex story that involves a pig." [click for full story]

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to be published

upcoming
​book 3

BLURB
​From an entry-level file clerk in the early-1990s to a high-level computer systems analyst in Ottawa, follow as he is blindsided to become the first casualty of Y2K -- going from coding the mainframes of the Government of Canada to asking, "You finished with your plate, sir?"

Chair Day

"Wee-wee-wee-wee-wee is the high-pitched sound of several dozen public servants wheeling their chairs down the corridors to the elevator ..." [click for full story]

Billion Dollar Heist

"I, a prairie kid newly arrived at National Headquarters of Computer Systems of the Government of Canada, am blindly thrown the master key to the biggest bank in the country." [click for full story]

Death by Newspaper

"Late one summer afternoon it went stupidly wrong and could have been fatal, stupidly fatal." [click for full story]