Storyteller.

Short fiction.

From spectral swamps to suburban crawlspaces, I like to explores the quiet places where grief and wonder meet. The clash of the fantastic and the mundane. Stories of haunted friendships, mythic legacies, and the desperate, beautiful ways we try to reclaim love, power, and ourselves.

“The Shortcut.”
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“The Shortcut.”

A dark-fantasy excerpt featured in Tales from The Magician’s Skull.

When a shortcut strands two travelers in a haunted ruin, a reluctant swordsman must follow his friend—freshly murdered and unnaturally reborn—into a cursed swamp where ancient love and unholy vengeance still stir. The Shortcut is a dark-fantasy tale of spectral possession, decaying empires, and the dreadful cost of loyalty.

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“Sh/ft.”
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“Sh/ft.”

A modern-day sci-fi short featured in The Granville Gazette.

When sixteen-year-old Winnow discovers she’s not the only Hopi who can teleport, she’s thrust into a world of government ops, cosmic myth, and viral fame—but what shakes her most is the fear of losing the one thing she’s never had before: being seen. In a future shaped by ancestral magic and modern exploitation, Sh/ft is a blisteringly sharp coming-of-age story about power, identity, and the price of belonging.

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“Hope Under My Fingernails.”
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“Hope Under My Fingernails.”

An award-winning short featured in Creative Loafing.

Bullied, grieving, and forgotten, a boy buries his pain in clay—shaping a silent protector in the shadows of his home, just like in his father’s old books. Hope Under My Fingernails is a tender, unsettling story about love, loss, and the magic a lonely child will believe in to feel safe again.

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