Unpublished

All Over Red Wolf

A novella

An extraordinary short novel that brilliantly details one man's battle with a mysterious disease--which, just when the protagonist seems to have survived it, spins toward other dangers. "Like the military governors of a rebellious state, Marion Shannonhouse's medical team had divided his body into provinces; and no sooner was insurrection quelled in one region than it began to be suspected in another. 

Frightening on the first page but sanguine by the last, the book is often unexpectedly comic. I could rave on about it as a work of art, but one is in touch with its quality in the first paragraph: "The blow that crushed his chest came from an ancient sword...." And by the end of the story, a reader will more specifically respect the ambiguity of life and love, as Marion and his new wife walk through a favorite Civil War cemetery in Pennsylvania where he will achieve the epiphany hard-earned by his condition.