Writing
Original writing
Novels, essays, and long-form work. Books are free to download as PDF or EPUB.
Series
Contemporary Problems
Two novels set in the same city, looking at the same event from two distances. Book One stays close to one person inside the window. Book Two pulls back to the 180,000 people living through it alongside her.
Book 1
What the Water Carried
A neuroscientist has forty-eight days to finish work only this version of her can do.
Something in the Gainesville water supply made the whole town brilliant. The phenomenon has a clock, and she is counting. The work she is doing inside the window is work she could not have understood six months ago, and it has to be finished now, because afterward she will have no way to audit it. By day twenty-two, she catches herself checking her own reasoning the way you would check a stranger's.
Book 2
What the City Carried
180,000 people woke up smarter. The city wasn't built for it.
A college town wakes up smarter than it went to sleep. The hospital wasn't staffed for it. The courts weren't built for it. The city offices weren't supposed to be making these decisions at all. Four people in ordinary jobs try to hold the seams together while 180,000 newly enhanced minds find reasons to pull in every direction at once.
Standalone
What the Darkness Kept
Built to destroy. Retired to grow pears. Not as hidden as he thought.
He was built to destroy. That was a long time ago. Now he grows pears and settles his neighbors' arguments. Then someone from the capital starts asking questions about this district, and the answers keep pointing toward something that should not exist.
Why writing on a security architect's site?
Building systems and writing use the same muscle: holding a complex structure in your head, finding the load-bearing joints, and testing whether the thing holds under pressure. The tools are different. The discipline is the same.