๐ฉบ THE SURGEON OF SILENCE #agentsguide
๐ง Institutional control
๐ฉธ A surgeon who built it, now here to end it
๐ณ๏ธ Decommissioned blacksite
๐ High stakes
๐ Multi-POV operatives & overseers
โ๏ธ Obedience vs refusal
Adult #speculativethriller. Querying soon.
One person is โunder pressure.โ
Another is โoverreacting.โ
One gets context. The other gets judgment.
Issue 07 of The Quiet Archive explores how protection can hide inside language and who gets the benefit of interpretation.
https://t.co/tpIuVEijJL
A widower inherits his late wifeโs sewing box and finds the pieces of a family she refused to let history erase.
My new fantasy short story, The Things She Kept, is free to read on Reedsy๐ฏ๏ธ
https://t.co/BvecvXsbxX
#ShortStory#Fantasy
Nothing in the email was technically untrue.
And yet, it wasn't accurate.
Issue 06 of The Quiet Archive explores how events become "official versions" and what disappears between what happened and what gets recorded.
https://t.co/Ae7nQUKBXr
#WritingCommunity#AmWriting
Why write grief as a letter instead of a narrative?
Why omit the moment of loss? Why build a story around a threshold instead of an event?
My newest Quiet Archive essay examines the architecture behind Letter from the Threshold.
https://t.co/FktCjd1t7F
โI came back."
The Threshold is available to read now โ a letter about grief, return, memory, and the moment a place stops owning you.
https://t.co/imwX7drW5e
#WritingCommunity#Substack#LiteraryFiction
New short story is live on Reedsy
Where the Stars Kept His Name is about grief, memory, and learning that remembering someone doesnโt mean becoming their grave.
Read it here: https://t.co/vzwa0QlWrb
#ShortStory#SpecFic#WritingCommunity
โMinimal is not the same as none.โ
Acceptable Loss is available now on The Quiet Archive โ an essay on grief, institutional language, and what survives when loss becomes data.
https://t.co/XMTk1SBi2U
#WritingCommunity#Substack#Essay
What happens when the world stops remembering youโbut you still remain?
My latest short story, The Name That Would Not Stay, explores memory, identity, and what makes us human.
Read here: https://t.co/dzrGmW1yWS
#WritingCommunity#AmWriting#ShortStory#SpeculativeFiction
โThis was not an easy decision.โ
But the phrase doesnโt just describe difficultyโ it makes the outcome feel inevitable.
My new newsletter looks at how systems use language to turn choices into โnecessity.โ
What gets framed as unavoidableโฆ and why?
#WritingCommunity#AmWriting
New short story out now: โWhen the Ink Refused.โ
In a realm built from memory, the laws of time begin to dissolve and the Archivist who created it must decide whether to rewrite the past or let it go.
Read here:
https://t.co/WDIDXr6fie
#WritingCommunity#Fantasy#ShortStory
New short story out now: โWhen the Ink Refused.โ
In a realm built from memory, the laws of time begin to dissolve and the Archivist who created it must decide whether to rewrite the past or let it go.
Read here:
https://t.co/WDIDXr6fie
#WritingCommunity#Fantasy#ShortStory
What gets recorded and who decides?
My new essay in The Quiet Archive looks at why those themes keep appearing in my stories.
History isnโt just what happens.
Itโs what gets written down.
#WritingCommunity#AmWriting
My Reedsy short story is live.
A letter to someone who once made silence feel safe. About grief, release, and leaving without erasing.
If you read it, tell me what lingered.
#ShortStory#amwriting#Reedsy#WritingCommunity#prompt