H.D. Whatley

Fiction

Short Stories

The Island of Feral Cats

Set in the Lowcountry of Georgia, this story is about the re-entry of a New York journalist to the deep South who is writing a novel
and his odyssey on a small island where he meets some of the local talent in the island's various watering holes.  2,500 words

3rd Place Golden Isles Magazine Short Fiction Contest July 2010

The Department

A love triangle between three academics in Savannah ends up with a deadly denouement.  About 2.700 words

Novels

City of Steeples

Set in present day Charleston, South Carolina, this mystery novel involves the relationship between a
local antiques dealer and a recently retired NYPD detective who retains a prominent Charleston attorney all while local gang members are on trial and a newly arrived Catholic priest is involved in a peculiar relationship with a local jeweler whose wife's corpse turns up in the morgue.
A work in progress.

Poetry


Bloody Beach
Poets for Living Waters
July 2010

Daytona Dad
Heavy Hands Ink
July 2010

Beach Poetry: Grains of Memories
A book of 30 poems about beaches and waterfront enclaves visited by the author.
Includes Tybee Sunday, Barcelona Beauties et al
A work in progress.
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