ADULT NOVELS
A novel formerly titled ALPHA HOUSE is currently represented by Douglas Stewart at Sterling Lord Literistic.
An excerpt was published in Hunger Mountain, July 2009
This is the story of Jeremy Barker, a fourteen year old boy, who (1) has a secret addiction to stealing women’s magazines, (2) attends an all male, Catholic high school where he is (3) terrorized by a gang of boys dressed all in plaid, and (4) knows way too much about his older brother Jackson’s sexual conquests. His father (5) has a fascination for surgery, (6) an obsession with necktie knots, and (7) is otherwise completely oblivious. Alpha House is a coming-of-age novel where violence is the only road to redemption and love is just another word for hope.
YOUNG ADULT NOVELS
JRA is co-writing a YA novel/series with his wife Kate Angelella. It is currently represented by Douglas Stewart at Sterling Lord Literistic.
SHORT STORIES
“Beneath the Bench on Barnaby Street”
Boston Literary Magazine
Summer 2008
“The Saddening State of Sammy the Speech Writer”
Twelve Stories
Issue One
“You Wake Up and the Virgin Mary on your Dresser is Crying Blood”
Word
Riot
March 2009
"Do These Horses Bite?" (Ransom Black cycle)
Flash Magazine
April 2009
The Literary Review
"Hoodlums"
Fifth Wednesday Journal
Fall 2009
"Insect Reads Optometrist's Chart"
Monkeybicycle
October 2009
"Shadowboxed" (Ransom Black cycle)
The Houston Literary Review
January 2010
