Writing has always been a way of trying to understand what is happening beneath the surface of things.
Culture, politics, belief, media, and personal experience rarely exist in isolation. They overlap, collide, and shape one another in ways that are often easier to feel than to immediately name. These essays come from that space of observation—where meaning is still forming, and language is being used to trace it as clearly as possible.
Some of this work engages with public systems: power, storytelling, music, ideology, and the cultural narratives that shape collective life. Some of it turns inward, into questions of belief, memory, and personal reckoning. Some moves through creative process itself, examining how writing takes shape and changes over time.
Not all of it is settled. Some pieces are revised, expanded, or reframed as understanding deepens. Others remain as they were first written, carrying the context of the moment they came from. A portion of this work has also been recovered or reconstructed from earlier publication across independent platforms.
What connects all of it is attention—the attempt to document thought as it forms, rather than after it has already hardened into conclusion.
Selected essays are published here, with ongoing work and additional writing now appearing regularly on Substack.
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Complete Works
• We Had Music and It had Us | Weird Wide Web/Pride Feature | Website 2026
The essay traces how queer identity is often first discovered through music, which acts as a private mirror of recognition before language or visibility exists. It also argues that throughout queer history—from Stonewall through disco to the AIDS crisis and beyond—music has carried both resistance and creation, holding grief and joy while shaping community, survival, and Pride itself.
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• A Voice for the Voiceless | Moxie Press, Issue 5 | print edition 2026
Published essay in an anti-fascist literary magazine exploring how people forge alternative communication when speech is restricted or endangered.
Moves between present observation and historical resistance systems—spirituals, coded language, light signals, and tapping in confinement—tracing sound, survival, and political witness.
• A World Without Horror | HorrorTree / Women in Horror Month Feature | Feb 21, 2019
Published essay reflecting on the role of horror as a narrative form, psychological tool, and cultural mechanism for confronting fear.
Moves between conceptual reflection and personal narrative, examining horror as both imaginative construction and lived experience. Explores how fear functions as a space of rehearsal for reality, and how storytelling becomes a method of processing trauma, uncertainty, and survival.
Grounded in personal testimony, the piece traces the relationship between creative horror writing and lived experience, framing horror not as escapism, but as a form of psychological grounding and emotional regulation through narrative control.
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• The Purging Method | HorrorTree / Women in Horror Month Feature | Feb 21, 2017
Published essay introducing a personal writing method developed during a period of creative blockage.
Documents the emergence of a structured “purging” process for writing—freeform accumulation of titles, narrative fragments, and self-generated questions used to break writer’s block and restore narrative flow.
Moves between personal struggle and emergent craft practice, tracing how unstructured writing becomes a system for rebuilding story architecture and clarifying large-scale narrative design.
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Rewritten/Revised Works
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Lost/Partially Lost Works
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