In the two months since the election, I have been working to ween myself from my overt attention to the political news. I have not ignored it entirely, but I’ve had significant success in reclaiming wide swathes of my time from following the happenings in D.C. and elsewhere through news sites and social media. In … Continue reading Finding What Matters

New Year’s Day may be my favorite holiday. It’s a calm and quiet day. Those rowdiest the night before are lost in their hangovers while many businesses are shut down for the day. The revelry has come to an end; the holidays are officially winding to a close; and a new year faces us all, … Continue reading A Turn Toward the Outer

I am learning to draw. Or no, I am not exactly learning to draw; I am just drawing. I have a small, simple journal, unassuming, and each day I sit down for a few minutes and attempt to draw something: a leaf, a shallot, a candle. For now, I am not working from imagination but … Continue reading Still Life

In recent weeks, I’ve been working to examine some of my habitual behaviors. There are reasons for this—a training I am engaged in—but it is proving useful at a broad personal level. In particular, I’ve been attempting to better understand the emotional states of being that drive certain habitual behaviors of mine, and how they … Continue reading The Urge to Run

A hummingbird feeder hangs off the branch of a tree in our backyard. It’s small and simple and, so far as I can tell, only one hummingbird currently visits it. But I keep my eye on it and make sure it stays filled, and try not to let the nectar get too old. It’s important … Continue reading Small Acts — An Original Essay

One of the pleasures I had in putting together the final issue of Into the Ruins was the opportunity to include a story of my own. I had not contributed fiction to the magazine since publishing "An Expected Chill" in the fourth issue, despite intentions to write more stories for it. Still, I managed one … Continue reading “Almost Home”: A Deindustrial Science Fiction Story

There is a surprise in coming to the end of this long, strange year. I remember in those early months when the world began to shut down due to Covid-19: it felt as though the year might last forever, that it would be a very long time before we came to the end of it. … Continue reading The Coming End

The publication of my story "The Face of the Deep" here on this website was just the beginning of a string of new stories from me. While the next one, "Almost Home," will be publishing soon in Into the Ruins—stay tuned for more on that—there is another tale a bit farther out, but that you … Continue reading “Exodus”: A Trip to Mars

“The Face of the Deep” is an original story, written specifically for publication on this site, available nowhere else except for purchase at Payhip and on this blog. It’s a story of grief, of loss, and of strange happenings. It is run through with mystery, horror, and suspense. It’s a story of this world, but … Continue reading The Face of the Deep: Part Three