Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers.

Our meddling intellect misshapes the beauteous forms of things; we murder to dissect.

Miranda Blair, a writer about mysterious death cases, is investigating the death of a child.

Jake Morgan loves Las Vegas. Hes a 33-year-old ex-cop from Boston.

Gathering berries or information; hunting game, experience, or knowledge.

Bizarre sexual parables, hilarious science fiction, fables, text-tangles, dirty stories.

Welcome to 1984 and the town of South Wakefield.

By 1987, David Bowie was at a creative, critical, and commercial low.

In the 1950s, in Las Vegas, a businessmens conglomerate dominating a $25 million-a-year sports industry.

Any look at Stephen Harper and the new Conservative party requires an examination.

The joke? Toronto thinks its the centre of some multicultural universe.

Tired of the government taxing all of your hard-earned money?

Throne of Straw has been performed in: Los Angeles at UCLA's MacGowan Hall, the Odyssey Theater.

Inspired by a children's geography primer, The Arrow Book of States, Starkey's Book of States was conceived in response as a contemporary poetic atlas.

The Boy Who Said No is first and foremost a story of people and their travails.

Violence and sex in a small Southern city. Arkie, Clemmie, Oxie, and Johns are linked by a schoolboy.

The Saga of Rifka and Herschel begins in South Africa where Herschel Haverman joins the Frankel family.

Dagny Taggart Jamison is a private investigator born on the day.

With this novel, the author of Inquest and Executive Action has managed fiction-created-from-fact.

From the author: I find the small acts within my observation interesting enough to merit writing.