Shark / Skull
Among shark teeth, bones, and objects pulled from the sea, two people begin to understand each other without needing to explain what they’ve survived. Some things are lost, some are remade, and some find their way back anyway.
Every Forecast, You
The Always Again Saga #2
In a seaside cottage where the weather seems to know their names, Lily and Poppy discover that staying can be just as strange as finding each other. As the house begins to echo their love back to them, romance turns domestic, uncanny, and impossible to ignore.
One Year, Unclaimed
In a Venice recovery meeting where the surf seems to clap in time with every milestone, one woman waits for a friend who never arrives to claim her year of sobriety. As the chair beside her sinks deeper into the sand and the ocean begins offering its own testimony, she is left holding the only version of the truth that still feels alive.
Writing The California Fever Dream
“Outside, the sky began changing colors like it was unsure which version of the sunset to run. A Joshua Tree caught fire, silently. Beautifully. And then reassembled itself in reverse.”
— Static at the edge of 29 Palms
“She could taste the day. Hot pennies. Sunscreen. The faint chemical sweetness of melted plastic… She told herself this was normal. California normal. A climate that didn’t ask permission.”
— What California Makes
“The heat was biblical and immediate. By the time she had crossed the wash and climbed the low rise beyond it, her shirt was sticking to her back and her thoughts had gone strangely bright around the edges.”