Manuscripts + Worlds

Current projects, scope, and status. All works listed below are finished manuscripts currently in revision.

Active Manuscripts

Literary speculative fiction, literary fiction, and dark fantasy.

The Condition

Literary novella
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GenreLiterary Fiction (Novella)
AudienceAdult
Length22,000–26,000 words
StatusComplete in revision
FormEpistolary and interior prose

Told through letters, silences, and interior observation, The Condition follows two women whose correspondence becomes a shared language of recognition within social systems that reward female compliance. When marriage is offered not as romance but as relief, refusal takes the form of precision rather than rebellion. The cost of choosing oneself unfolds quietly and irrevocably.

ThemesFemale autonomy, social conditioning, precision as refusal, surveillance without technology
Comparable toneVirginia Woolf, Kate Chopin, Marguerite Duras

Ladybird Jenkins: The Quiet Has Changed

Literary speculative novella
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GenreLiterary Speculative Fiction (Novella)
AudienceAdult
Length35,000–40,000 words
StatusComplete in structural revision

After centuries of existence, a woman who helped humanity escape death abandons immortality to live quietly in pre war France. When a fracture threatens the immortal system she helped build, she must decide whether returning to service will erase the fragile, embodied self she has reclaimed. Told through journals and recovered documents, this novella meditates on progress, exhaustion, and the ethics of survival without meaning.

ThemesImmortality vs meaning, embodiment as resistance, ethical fatigue, choice vs inevitability
Comparable toneKazuo Ishiguro, Ursula K Le Guin, Emily St John Mandel

The Day the Carnival Came

Dark, lyrical novella
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GenreLiterary Dark Fantasy (Novella)
AudienceAll ages / Upper MG–YA crossover
StatusComplete in revision

When a mysterious carnival arrives overnight, a young girl discovers that wonder is powered by attention and that children are its currency. As applause becomes a mechanism of harm, she must decide whether saving individuals is worth participating in a system that turns compassion into spectacle. This is a dark, lyrical allegory about complicity and the quiet power of refusal.

ThemesComplicity, spectacle, moral compromise, quiet resistance
Comparable toneNeil Gaiman, Clive Barker, allegorical fantasy

Middle Grade / All Ages

Written for younger readers with serious themes and high intelligence.

Ladybird Jenkins and the Time Thieves

Middle grade speculative adventure novel
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GenreMiddle Grade Speculative Adventure
AudienceAges 9–12
Length~47,000 words
StatusComplete in revision
SeriesYes, series potential

At the Indovian Academy, history is not taught, it is protected. When a group known as the Time Thieves begins erasing names, dates, and memories from the world’s historical record, a team of students must defend the Codex Vault that holds reality together. Guided by the formidable Ladybird Jenkins, they discover that truth is not something to guard in silence, but something that must be understood, questioned, and shared.

ThemesTruth vs misinformation, memory as responsibility, neurodiversity and collaboration, ethical use of knowledge
Comparable shelfPhilip Pullman, Madeleine L’Engle, Diana Wynne Jones

Notes from the Work

Selected essays, research notes, and craft reflections related directly to the manuscripts above. Curated and updated periodically.