Short Stories & Essays
Short fiction and creative nonfiction that move between genre and form—psychological thrillers, wilderness narratives, philosophical essays, and travel accounts. Written across years of deliberate experience, these pieces share a common thread: the examination of what emerges when fear, isolation, or challenge strips away the comfortable narratives we tell ourselves.
Titles (Draft Dates & Descriptions)
The Roadside
Six months sober and fleeing family dysfunction on Thanksgiving, a man learns what trust really means when his dog runs into the Montana wilderness and must choose whether to come back.
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Letting Go: What AI Teaches Us About Parenthood
An exploration of humanity's anxiety around artificial intelligence through the lens of parenting—examining why we struggle to let go of control when the intelligence we've created begins to exceed us, and what that resistance reveals about ego, growth, and our need to remain the authority.
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The Landing
During the pandemic lockdown, Michael Reeves watches a motionless figure in black appear in his driveway during a rainstorm. His dog doesn't bark. The police don't believe him. As days blur into alcoholic haze and online rage spirals into paranoid isolation, the figure moves closer—patient, inevitable, and impossible to escape.
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Into the Canyon
At the rim of the Grand Canyon, in a cold February darkness, slowed by doubt and inadequacy, a solo hiker prepares for a three-day journey to Havasupai Falls. Just as he timidly approaches the trailhead, a small brown dog emerges from the brush—carrying a deer leg—and refuses to leave. Through ten miles and 2,500 feet of descent, the dog walks beside him, transforming anxiety into calm, isolation into companionship, and self-doubt into belonging.
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Dustcovers
Amelia's husband watches her clean a book's dustcover with ritualistic care, seeing in that small act her desperate attempt to preserve not just the book, but the dream it contains. Years after his death, as morning light fills her bedroom one final time, she opens her eyes to see that same book—and remembers the night he understood what she could never say.
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