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Marriage, Staged

A closeted woman enters a hillside open house where infidelity, resentment, fertility panic, and self-erasure have each been preserved in perfect taste. At the end of the tour, the house offers her a room of her own and a life that would ask almost nothing of her except silence.

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The Chapel with the Backwards Pews

A woman vanishes into a strange, looping world of motel pools, static-lit skies, and identities that refuse to stay fixed. There, in a chapel where the pews face backward and the altar points toward something like truth, she begins to understand that leaving is not always the opposite of becoming.

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Pues Se Quedó Pintada, Mija

When a woman returns to the site of a wildfire and finds her lost love painted into the stone, she begins to witness impossible changes no one else can see. What unfolds is a haunting shaped not by ghosts, but by the quiet persistence of a love that refused to disappear.

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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.

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Holy Hunger

A former arsonist returns to the fireline where the land still remembers the first time she let it burn. When the flames begin to take shape and call her back by her old name, she’s forced to confront whether she was ever fighting the fire—or feeding it.

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Race You Back to the Car!

In a ruined medical zone haunted by falling hatchets and impossible visions, a nurse keeps saving everyone she can while something in the sky refuses to strike her. The longer she remains untouched, the clearer it becomes that the real wound was never the apocalypse, but what she has carried through it.

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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.”

Roofline Blonde