W R I T I N G

SUNFLOWERS STILL GROW AT NIGHT

Novel excerpt (rough draft), dark fantasy

November 2024 • ~150k words (9.7k excerpt)

The year is 1946. Hitler is dead, and the war in Europe is over. Audrey Charcot, sent across the channel with her elder sister Marcienne to escape the fall of France six years before, travels alone by train along the coast of Normandy towards her old home in Caen, aware it, like everything else, probably exists now only in memory. There she finds herself slowly drawn into a secret about her departed sister which she could have never have conceived and could hardly better understand.

ALL THE VALIANT

Novel excerpt (skeleton draft), historical fantasy

March 2023 • 103k words (6.3k excerpt)

In a snow-dusted valley near the sea, Almilla Rook, an orphaned servant girl, dreams of becoming a knight. Since the Count Calshire purchased her late mother’s debt five years ago, she has lived as the handmaid of his daughter, Cecily, half a sister and half a slave. What she wants from life, she doesn’t know - only that here, she is unhappy. The world is changing; an industrial revolution burgeons, eroding the world the Church has spent a millenium building, and every day her countrymen live in fear of open war finally erupting between the great empires that loom on both sides. Controversy and conspiracy brew unchecked, as men everywhere stake out their own dreams of paradise - and, as Almilla plots her escape from servitude, a certain buried secret threatens to light the fire. 

RETURN OF A KING

Short story

April 2024 • 1.5k words

A short story written for a Lord of the Rings-centred fantasy-as-literature course. As Sauron's tower falls and the the alliance of the Free Peoples bears down upon them, a Southman of the Haradrim army sworn to the King in the Tower's cause awaits his fate.

CHALK TABLET TOWERS

Short story

February 2025 • 1.8k words

A short story written for workshop. In a decaying city, a runner there to clear out her absent friend's apartment reminisces on a certain gaze.

NEVER REALLY ALONE

Game script, psychological horror

April 2024 • ~5k words

A stressful day is not always solved by a good night's sleep. A young girl explores her new foster home in search of her stuffed cat to put off falling asleep for just a few more minutes.

Game available on itch.io

LABYRINTH

Gamebook, dark fantasy

April 2024 • ~7k words

A quasi-choose-your-own-adventure gamebook originally written in Twine. A distant retelling of the legend of Theseus and Ariadne and their trip to the Wounded City, now all but lost to history.

EMPTY ORCHESTRA

Short story

March 2025 • 3.1k words

As a New Year's celebration resounds overhead, and to the backing of a three-way debate over the future of society, a new father collapses into drunkenness.