James J Slattery: 4 books

DIE LIVE LOVE is the story of one reluctant pilgrim’s progress from childhood’s end through the various stages of spiritual and physical death into life, then into Grace. It is a tale of growing alienation metastasizing into alcoholism and impending spiritual death. It is a story of a man buried...

Slate Run Annual is a collection of unique and fresh new voices draw exclusively from the Capital District area of upstate NY. Diverse in genre and style, Slate Run Annual presents a wide range of voices - literary fiction, humor, fantasy, science fiction and coming of age. So expansive a collection will doubtless present readers with something for every taste.

Nothing is out of place in Tommy's life. Not his immaculate house and lawn. Not his beautiful and successful children. Certainly not his loving and loyal wife, Lana. But when Tommy's health and, later, Lana's, take bad turns, he finds himself facing the question of what had meaning and what does not.

Embarkation is the author's attempt to write a normal short story about normal people. He failed.