WRITING
LITERARY,
SPECULATIVE,
GOTHIC
"Like fabric, my years inside the house frayed; beginnings and endings fell apart."
THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH ERIK HEART
A gothic novel set in the Pacific Northwest, completed in partial fulfillment for the prerequisite of honors at Wellesley College. This project won the Jerome A. Schiff Fellowship and The Charlotte Paul Reese '38 Memorial Prize for Creativity in Writing. The complete manuscript is available upon request.
"As of 11:53 PM PST on May 26th, 2024, my father was a hated man."
BORROWED PEOPLE
After connecting with the sole survivor of a Seattle family's brutal massacre, a young woman unravels how these deaths relate to her father's medical practice and his secret interest in the occult. ​BORROWED PEOPLE is a work in progress.
"Flames blanketed Cavrille's hands. The air warped. Hers was a dark, hot magic. Cavrille oftentimes felt that this fire was the only thing that knew her. It broke the night. It danced."
EYES THAT SPLIT
The State of Kyvor knows only how to fear, with the government tightly controlling its small enclave of mediums within its walled capital city. These mediums must display public subservience as if their wills bend toward peace.
They don’t.
This dark, gothic fantasy centers Cavrille, who must reconcile her marriage to a high-ranking bureaucrat with the unyielding power she secretly harbors. With the threat of exposure hanging over her following a failed pregnancy, Cavrille faces the grim possibility of being torn from her home and relocated to the oppressive capital. There, her only chance of survival would lie in proving her loyalty to the State and mastering her volatile abilities. Failure would mean certain execution.​ EYES THAT SPLIT is a work in progress.
"There's nothing here, Caroline realized. Just black, black water."
WHO HUNG THE MOON
A short story. After undergoing a bilateral oophorectomy, Caroline Levy miscarries and learns that she cannot bear children at twenty-five years old. When a family tradition forces Caroline to return to Henry Island, the place she had hoped to name her future child after, she must reconcile her future as a mother with her upbringing under a woman who never wanted children to begin with.
"This isn't death, he tries to tell himself. This is just what death looks like."
DRAGONET PASTTIME
A short story. Evan, a fish store manager, strains his relationship when he comes into ownership of a beautiful yet difficult-to-care-for fish.