Essays, Articles, and Fiction
I'm much better at expressing myself in text than I am out loud. In person, you'll hear me forget obvious words or stumble through a conversation because of audio processing. In prose, I have more time to choose my words and finish my thoughts.
⚝ Magica
I've been writing about my spiritual practices for over a decade and so these essays specifically live on their own page.
🜁 Other Non-Fiction
Nerdy Parenting: Thoughts on parenting as a nerd and on the idea of raising a nerd.
Personal Library Collections Policy: An exercise in how I think about the books I buy, keep, and remove, with the goal of being more intentional about what I bring into my home.
Linkrot: On website existentialism and digital decay
Writing As a Relationship: Thoughts on how most of my relationships are defined by writing, and especially how co-writing is an exercise in intimacy.
🜂 Fiction
Leusana: A world where gods came to earth and humans live with the consequences.
Aftertaste: When she came Below, Cassandra came with her head held high and her eyes unclouded.
Antimony and Lead: The world ended weeks ago and Lacey’s been cast out of the safe bunker she called home with her husband and sister-wives. Now she’s got to figure out where she should go and who she can trust to stay alive in post-apocalyptic Utah.
Baggage: Garcia’s been quietly building her practice as a freelance supernatural troubleshooter in Phoenix for years, and is almost ready to break into full-time if she can just deal with a thief, a library ghost, man-eating mermaids and her own relationship issues.
God Knows Even Angels Fall: The investigation of grief, god, obedience and ascenstion.
The Heart is Deceitful: From my Superhero project, adventures in a bad breakup
Like Graffiti On The Walls Of The Heartland: Gloria's running, but she's just running in circles.
My Own Vineyard: But my own vineyard is mine to give;/ the thousand shekels are for you, O Solomon,/ and two hundred are for those who tend its fruit.
Now I'm Just Somebody That I Used To Know: A meditation on grief, theology, and the thin line between suicidal ideation and apotheosis.
The Ranch: The ranch was nearly untouched, perched on a mesa outside Sedona, acres of reclaimed wild desert surrounding it.
Through the Screen Doors: I started to think that city life was something I'd been saved from somehow, by fate and by Frank. That lasted until Jude and her husband moved in.