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I'm a Missouri native, originating from St. Louis County, Missouri, and obtained my degree in Sociology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. I'm the writer of the 1960s American southern drama screenplay "Southern Passage" which is based on my published novel and true events. This is a story of innocence lost and wisdom found and follows a Midwestern young man’s eye-opening venture into the adult world when he leaves home and goes searching for college money in Texas and Louisiana where he finds friendship with a former prostitute, love with a 21-year-old widow, and an unforgiving 1960s racist social order. I'm also the author of the screenplay "The Kellstrumm Paradox". Based on my published novel, it is a riveting, near future speculative science fiction tale that explores the fusion and potential consequences of light-speed particle collision and multiverse time travel. I authored the novel St. Louis Chronicles: Project Clean Stream. It tells the story of two Viet Nam vets who embark on an often harrowing criminal justice career in the 1970s. They land jobs as state probation and parole officers and soon find that they may have traded one kind of jungle for another. Instead of Viet Cong, there are gangs, drug lords, crooked cops and crooked judges. Facing an unanticipated world of challenges and dangers, each makes his way through the often dark underbelly of the criminal justice system.