I write speculative fiction that stands against the dark, lighting the way to worlds that could be: worlds where connection emerges from chaos, where community out-competes greed, and where love is more durable than fear.

Briarcliff

Working title // Final draft

A moody horror short about one man’s desperate sacrifice to a prehistoric supernatural force. This piece is an experiment in narrative by elision, drawing inspiration from video games’ heavy use of environmental storytelling.

Crossroads

Working title // In progress

A hopecore novella about a down-on-her-luck artist who takes a job at a supernatural boutique. The shop is a community for outcasts: an immortal, curmudgeonly bookseller; a neurotic fire sprite; a pair of klutzy sibling witches; and one exhausted manager somehow holding it all together, despite the sins of the shop’s demonic angel investor. The vibes are cozy, and our artist finds family and community there, but Crossroads also holds a secret—we don’t talk about the hellmouth in the basement—and that secret could threaten everything.

The Deep

Working title // Temporarily shelved

A cosmic horror short about a deep sea salvage dive that encounters a threat beyond human understanding, and a secret organization that will do anything to keep that threat hidden. This piece is a claustrophobic katabasis into the deep, filled with interpersonal tension, existential dread, and even (somehow) malevolent mathematics.