Synopses: 

Slipshod Watchman (186 pages)
Set in New York City's West Village, this story of loss rides the events and emotions that first brought the love of a lifetime to a young, off-Broadway actor, and then wrenched it away. Within the same timeframe, friendship between the actor and an African-American neighbor and her teenage daughter is abruptly terminated by the woman's brutal murder. In attempting to clarify his role in both tragedies, and to come to some acceptance of it, the actor reviews the two, intertwined histories, frequently appropriating language and lines from classical plays he has performed - identifying particularly with murderous Macbeth. Erupting, also, into his narrative and into the investigation of the murder, comes his own version of a Rasta character, serving as conscience, commentator, and confessor. As the  actor attempts to reach the roots of these losses and unravel the contributing circumstance, the language he adapts and wraps himself in comes to incarnate the emotions, worlds, and conflicts that events have unexpectedly bound together.

St. Mary's Bar (237 pages)
This ensemble story of nine friends who meet weekly in a Soho bar opens one night when one member arrives pale and distraught from witnessing an African-American neighbor mistakenly arrested and then humiliated by the police. Most of the friends react with disbelief and outrage. Some want to confront the police immediately, while others recommend a measured response.