Curiosity Beyond The Norm

Anything I create that won’t fit elsewhere goes here.

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Y’All Write 2026

I scheduled this blog post well in advance, because I’m saving up all my creative energy for Y’All Write this month! If you ever heard about NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month, a writing challenge where you create a novel in 30 days), Y’All Write is basically the same thing. Only it takes place during a…

Iran, Poetry, and You

If you’re only hearing about Iran in relation to US-Israeli strikes, that’s by design. January in Iran saw “one of the most extreme Internet shutdowns in history” as the country cut off Internet access for its citizens. It appears the reason for this shutdown was to cover up the mass murder of civilians following the…

A conversation with Donna Birdwell

Last October, I hosted an interview with Donna Birdwell, a fellow writer and critique group partner, at Austin’s Reverie Books. We talked about her latest novel, The Disenchantment of Narcissa Tarver, as well as dehumanization, data analysis, and the illegal actions she took in the name of research. We also read the first chapter of…

My third published story

… is available for you to read on Anotherrealm, a short speculative fiction magazine! Titled KNIFECYCLE, this horror piece tells the tragic tale of an abandoned knife, and has a happy ending… for someone. Much like with Breathe, Anotherrealm liked my story so much that they published it despite usually avoiding flash fiction and sentient…

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