2010:  © BEND, an original screenplay, from a story by Brent T. Barker, completed January 1, 2010.     

2008-2010:  New novel, © RATTLESNAKE MOMMA, completion date, 2010. . .  a story about a boy and his momma, a boy and his daddy, a man and his momma, a man and his son.  Set along the New River in North Carolina and in the canyons and on the beaches of Los Angeles - the story is a sweeping and intimate look at a southern boy who becomes a man in spite of himself as he participates in and celebrates with the cultural shifts of five decades.    

2004-2007:  © LOVE IN HIS VEINS, an original screenplay, completed 2007.  It is 1974 when Grayson Dobbs and Tony Love arrive in San Francisco, separately, on very different missions and long before AIDS has entered the parlance of Castro Street and the men who live there.  What Grayson and Tony discover about each other and the men around them will forever change all their lives and write the first chapter in an ongoing history of sex and love, deceipt and death, and the hunted and the hunters. 

One thing is certain, in this explosive script, there is love in Grayson’s veins and it’s deliberate. 

2002-2007: © DANCING ON THE CELLAR DOOR, Published Novel.

This is a tale of revelation - set in 1992 - a dance with the past that leads to the light of the future.

Conrad, a famous actor and Margaret, a rich southern belle, are half-siblings who inherit an Island from a father they dislike and never trusted. So why are they shocked to discover each other exists?

They arrive on their Island to finalize the Will with its executor, Sophie, the curator of a secret and the Goddess of wisdom who unlocks the mysteries of the Cellar Door and the Cellar.

When tempers are close to exploding, Myeck arrives.  He is Sophie’s eternal mate and the guardian of fossils and souls.

The Island is full of magic and mystery and it soon becomes apparent that dancing is good for the heart, honesty hurts but can be withstood, and laughter is the preferred medicine for a vigorous spirit, along with a sprinkle of forbidden love and a splash of salmonberry wine.

2007-Ongoing: © SANDED AND STAINED, a short story collection. 

Cage, Culver, Lela Mae and Crissy Leigh are among the many southerners and others you will meet in this collection of stories which both celebrate the indulgence of stalking your madness and question the pursuit of chasing your sanity.