Before Our Bodies
Photo by Virginia Petrucci
Self-Portrait in B-Flat
A lot of my pieces during a time of major rupture in my life were of mistaken identity and mirroring. As I suffered through and tried to bridge across this liminal landscape, fantasy images of self populated my work. For instance, this piece (made into a short film several years later by Ethan Messecar).
Monument Man
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…
Driving for the Sun
I wrote the lyrics and was co-producer & recording engineer (for Andi’s vocals and acoustic guitar). Mixed by Jason Mariani.
To the Two Dogs
Music by Jordan Richter
Lost Drawer
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
· 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
Harbor Daughter is am completed 85,000-word LGBTQ+ upmarket literary novel with fabulist elements told in a third-person single POV. Opening Chapter: Nasiriyah, Iraq Late March 2003 Lt. Tamsin Sand slept and woke to morning prayers and then it was light. She lay on a gurney in a room with a high window. The room was…
House of Life
This epic religious fantasy is a 186,000-word retelling of the life of Moses (drawn from Sund’s research on the Torah for his Ph.D. in Mythological Studies ). The novel in five “books” follows themes and stories from each book of the Torah. Early readings elicited this response: “Asher’s novel, House of Life, is the best…
12 Steps of a Tradeshow Junkie
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…