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Stories
Stories and longer works that move through scene, tension, mood, and consequence.
Browse stories by title, theme, or recency.
After midnight, Theo's reflection begins to lag. Hunting the double he fears has replaced him, he finds a city of false mirrors, secret archives and copies that may be more human than their originals. An urban uncanny story about identity, memory and the mistake of mistaking lateness for lesser life.
When the council closes the weather-beaten lido he has cared for all his life, Ivor begins repainting its railings to give himself a reason to say goodbye. Then Kai asks to help, and a low-tide opening turns private maintenance into a small, demanding act of community. A coastal story about care, public space, safety and responsibility shared.
Every night, Charles can pause time for twelve minutes, but any weight he moves takes days from his life. When Tasha falls in the stairwell, he must decide what her survival is worth, and learn whether care can be practised without spending himself to nothing. Quiet urban uncanny about a caretaker, an estate and the difficult arithmetic of keeping people safe.
An Epic of Brands, Platforms, and the Fall of the User
A story of inherited memory, wrong doors and child-scale resistance
A story of borrowed apologies
A story of blue smoke, family fear, and the hidden room next door
Little animal stories for ages 4-7
On Choosing Pane Over Flame
A story of rust, restraint, and a dress that asks to be worn
Seal What Shimmers (Seam Warden)
These stories sit where lyric attention meets narrative consequence.
Some move quietly. Some cut faster. All of them care about what a room feels like before and after the sentence that changes it.
If the poems hold fragments of pressure, the stories ask what happens when that pressure has to move through character, place, silence, timing, and consequence.
They are interested in more than plot. They care about the atmosphere around the action, the undertow beneath the dialogue, and the private thing a character cannot quite say directly.
Read them for the sentence, the scene, or the shift. The work should hold at all three levels.