The Pacific Trash Psalm
She survives by staying afloat and staying quiet, trading in the scraps of a world that has already ended. But when the ocean starts remembering her out loud, she is forced to face the possibility that she was never meant to survive it.
The Polaroid Wears Ray-Bans
A woman checks into a hyper-curated Airbnb in the hills and finds herself stalked by Polaroids of glamorous ghosts who lounge, pose, and decay behind mirrored Ray-Bans. The deeper she falls into the house’s glittering logic, the harder it becomes to tell whether she’s escaping a haunting or being styled into one.
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.”