A Waste of Shame: a novella

Head and heart, body and soul, is and ought - the world to college student Ace Edelman is forever torn in two. A special love heals him, but when it goes away, will he be able to find meaning in the seemingly unremarkable daily life we are all expected to live? Or will he find in Eros and ideas the only life worth living? In narrative scenes of young love, deadly violence, and humor-tinged treasure hunting, "A Waste of Shame" explores the murky moral border between having nothing to be ashamed of, and being ashamed of nothing.

Kenneth LaFave is a prize-winning journalist, a composer of contemporary classical music and a student of philosophy. His output includes musical scores commissioned by The Phoenix Symphony, the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, the Kansas City Chorale, the Chicago String Quartet, New York Philharmonic timpanist Roland Kohloff, London tenor Philip Eve, Close Encounters With Music and others; hundreds of articles, essays and interviews written for The Arizona Republic, The Kansas City Star, the Los Angeles Times, Dance Magazine, NewMusicBox.com, and many editions of Playbill magazine. The father of two sons, he lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, with a pair of cats and an espresso machine.