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PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER · SATIRICAL HORROR
An FBI investigator follows missing women to a professor’s estate. Captivity is disguised as conversion.
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FICTION · ESSAYS · SATIRE · WORKS IN PROGRESS
His writing has been described as “unpublishable but necessary.”
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01 / ON THE DESK
Pick a project. Keep the thread.
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Fiction, essays, satire, and a darker turn.
FICTION · COMIC PREMISE
Left at the altar. Fired from Uber. Short on cash. Shane’s search for a fresh start takes a very strange turn.
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ESSAY · SHORT BOOK
A plainspoken case against libertarian free will—and a separate inquiry into consciousness as a “ride-along.”
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Identity, language, and a joke that turns toward mortality. Your uploaded manuscript, ready to read in full.
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Cassandra Holt follows missing women to the Winterbournes’ estate, where captivity is disguised as conversion.
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EARLIER FICTION IDEA
An unnamed narrator, Alice, and a secret obsession. An earlier romance idea with another page still to find.
Scenes & an earlier premiseONE SMALL NEXT STEP
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FROM THE EARLIER IDEAS
An unnamed narrator, a secret obsession, and a romance to return to.
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