As a journalist, policy advocate, and creative writer, Patrick has authored thousands of published works. Below are a few of his published works of fiction and creative nonfiction.
Private eye Don Diamond vows to his new client that he’ll find her missing Princess. He’ll forgive himself for at first believing it was the client’s daughter who was missing rather than a Pekinese show dog.
The Atlas Maior was the largest and most expensive published work of the 17th Century, a collection of atlases that attempted to capture the world. This essay explores the dramatic story of its creator, Joan Blaeu, and its impact on the author in the 21st Century.
Our narrator spends the morning of September 11, 2001, fleeing the U.S. Capitol after terrorists crash a plane into the Pentagon. More emotionally powerful is what transpires the next day.
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