writer. storyteller. daydreamer.

Charlie Doyle is a tender-footed, risk-averse academic whose quiet life in the Seattle suburbs is destroyed by an invasion by an unknown alien enemy. Each passing day and increasingly dangerous encounters with hostile invaders and desperate survivors confirm to Charlie that there is no savior in sight. Forced to abandon his reclusive life in search of safety eastward over the mountains, Charlie risks everything to embark on a treacherous journey of a thousand miles through the fallout of a newly dystopian world to find the one person who could save them all and put an end to the war. 

Jonas Fogg is a writer. A misanthrope and self-described “utter failure,” he’s resigned to his stagnant though comfortably predictable life writing in his notebooks and working at a newsstand in Central Park. A fantastic cup of house blend drip coffee and a chance encounter with a clairvoyant bum throw Jonas’s life into chaos, confronting him with changes he’d been hiding from for years. On his journey Jonas rediscovers himself, love, friendship and the difference between living and a life well-lived.

What do you get when an Alaskan Grizzly Bear named Corky tries to make a normal life among humans in Seattle? Unemployment, failed relationships, therapy and the occasional pint of Guinness. Follow the missteps and misadventures of life as an outsider through the adult eyes of a bear trying to make his way in a cold world. Anthropomorphism hasn’t been this fun since Chewbacca.

Personal essay about lessons learned while working my high school job at a funeral home in rural Michigan. Published in the Spring 2020, Issue 2 of The Moving Force Journal!

Through reflection on my family house in my small hometown, this creative nonfiction essay explores what makes a house a home, how that is earned, and how we often spend the rest of our lives looking for that home when we leave it. Published September 1, 2020 in Waxing & Waning, A Literary Journal - Issue 06 (Print Only at this time).