When Steve’s college girlfriend, Anni, tells him that her twin sister has uncovered memories of their pastor–father sexually abusing her, Steve refuses to believe it. Anni’s father is his hero. As a religious major in college, Steve longs to follow his soon-to-be father-in-law into the ministry. But as he witnesses Anni’s PTSD-like symptoms firsthand, he…
A lot of my pieces during that time were of mistaken identity and mirroring, trying as I was, perhaps as Lacan might agree, Perhaps part psychodrama or a more base, mirroring phase, Suffering the liminal space between opposites in Jungian psychology, I was Perhaps some regressive, psychological, liminal or Lacanian Imaginary Order phase whereby I…
On the eve of his coronation as Pharaoh, eleven-year-old Amenhotep struggles with his father’s recent death and the responsibilities of his future reign. Haunted by memories of abuse and the expectations of the court, he battles inner turmoil as priests and priestesses perform rituals for the dead pharaoh. His mother, Mutemwiya, pressures him to choose…
I wrote the lyrics and was co-producer & recording engineer (for Andi’s vocals and acoustic guitar). Mixed by Jason Mariani.
Music by Jordan Richter
Popup material: Found footage from 2004, a few months before 3 sisters take their minister-father to trial. This follows the story of the memoir.
· The Terminal Situation is a finished hybrid prose-poetry book focusing primarily on Sund’s dissolution of the relationship with his narcissistic partner and mother of his child (Janay, in his memoir). After taking it through three developmental rounds of edits with Jeffrey Levine, founder and editor of Tupelo Press (one of the premier independent presses…
Harbor Daughter is am completed 86,000-word LGBTQ+ upmarket literary novel with fabulist elements told in a third-person single POV.
This book is my baby! I spent a good 10 years from beginning research (for my Ph.D.) through the finished draft. The epic religious fantasy is a 186,000-word a religious-historical epic based on the life of Moses (drawn from Sund’s research on the Torah for his Ph.D. in Mythological Studies with an emphasis in Depth…
This piece won first place in the Marjorie J. Wilson Award for Excellence in Poetry, out of over 6,000 entries, judged by Joyce Carol Oates. I’m grateful to Robert Nazarene for publishing it in MARGIE and nominating it, along with Oates, for a Pushcart Prize. 12 Steps of a Tradeshow Junkie 1 This is my…