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

Jaden Smerlow uses search algorithms and social nets to collect plaintiffs for class action lawsuits.  He has a record for fraud and a failed marriage behind him, but is doing good business in a shadowy area of law. Attorney Kyle Wayland comes to him with a case she wants to certify against the mysterious Nuvocol, maker of Second Skin®. Potential class members keep disappearing, and Kyle does too. Now Jaden must not only find his plaintiffs, but his client, and who is taking them, before he himself is made to vanish.

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.
Songs
> Absent Friends - It's about loss, here specific to Staten Island and one day in 2001.
> Bethlehem - A meditation in Open C tuning, tribute to John Fahey.
> Forever - My return to songwriter after a lengthy hiatus brought about by life.

Stories

Snark and Various Humors