Writings

This site houses a sampling of my novels and stories, spiced with some photography and odds and ends.
Inquiries to andykass@siwriter.com are welcome.

Novels

Displaced Persons

When you are new to America, your life can change in a moment of terror far across the continent.

Novapolis

You are taken with your family by the State to a walled city where all your needs are supplied, as long as you can work. Feran Jezraeg fights the loss of his family and his past, challenging the power and the future of the State.

Tottenville

June 1973 was a turning in the life of a small town at the extreme southern tip of New York City:  The Vietnam War is approaching an end.  The Supreme Court has decided Roe v. Wade, legalizing abortion.  Development is coming. High school graduation is approaching for the Smyte and McVay families of Satterlee Street. The stories build upon each other, telling the story of two weeks that change lives in a sleepy town in a big city.

The Case Runner

Jay Smerlow did time in Florida for harvesting credit cards. Now he uses search algorithms and social nets to collect plaintiffs for lawsuits. Attorney Kyle Wayland comes to him with a case involving a doctor using a secretive lab's skin regeneration substance to treat failing organs, which will fail if weekly injections are withheld. Settlement appears imminent, but plaintiffs start disappearing, and Kyle does too, and Jay keeps getting visits from a prison enforcer out of his past. Now Jay must figure out what happened to his plaintiffs and his client before he too disappears.
 

Raging City

Ever wonder what your city would look like in time of civil war?  This novel juxtaposes a near-future New York City with Beirut of recent past, and follows a chain of people from uneasy peace to open war, triggered by a simple object that falls by accident into the hands of a decent man.

Stories

Snark and Various Humors