Trimmed For Company
After losing her job writing the dead into something palatable, a woman follows a roadside orchard that offers a different kind of edit, one you can swallow. But the more she consumes, the more the town begins reshaping her life into something easier to tell, and impossible to get back from.
Rooted With You
The Always Again Saga #3
As the seasons begin to shift around them, Lily and Poppy move beyond chance and into choice, building a life that deepens with every turning. What once felt like fate becomes something steadier, something rooted: a love that grows because they keep choosing it.
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.
Glass Eyes at Century City
Century City gleams like paradise until one woman sees the mouths moving without swallowing, the reflections nodding when the bodies do not, and the mannequins stepping quietly down from their pedestals. Beneath the mall’s flawless surfaces waits a horror of assimilation, where the final luxury is becoming perfectly still.
Santa Monica Eats Its Own
A Ferris wheel at the edge of Santa Monica becomes a machine for chewing through identity, memory, and every life its rider did not live. With each rotation, the city mutates into a more vicious reflection of itself, until the question is no longer how to get off the ride, but whether she was ever separate from it.
Lisa Frank is Bleeding
A dead mother’s house starts crying in bubblegum pink, pulling one woman back into the parts of herself she was taught were childish, shameful, and too much to keep. Beneath the gloss and body horror, something stranger is waiting: not punishment, but permission.
Where The Mycelium Waited
Beneath a redwood forest, an ancient mycelial consciousness begins to awaken around the footsteps of one grieving woman who keeps coming back. What follows is a love story made of moss, memory, and the strange mercy of being recognized before you can recognize yourself.
Red Lipstick, White Noise
A trip to the Integratron sends a skeptical reporter into a desert spiral of sound baths, retro domestic hauntings, and a womanhood she refuses to inherit. But as the white noise deepens and the mirrors stop obeying, resistance starts to sound dangerously close to surrender.
A Signal Ghost
A sound engineer with a gift for tuning emotion into music is pulled into a charged reunion with the ex who taught her how easily connection can become manipulation. Beneath the noise of Los Angeles, their unfinished history begins to echo through the crowd.
Tier 2: Glitchgirl Core
After being upgraded into a hyper-curated Tier 1 society, a woman discovers that every trend, voice, and identity has been stolen from the people below her. Instead of playing the role she was finally given, she rewrites the system from the inside until it starts to break.
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.”