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Current Works and Upcoming Releases

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Upcoming Release

The Phoenix: Invoked 

The Upcoming First Novel of The Phoenix Saga

Naera is a world under Human occupation, its native people fighting a war that must be won quickly—lest it not be won at all. After decades of bloodshed, liberation for the Ahresh is finally within reach, and the closer it comes, the less room there is for hesitation. 

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The final campaign to seize the occupied capital of Hoté demands unflinching momentum and unwavering unity at the warfront even as civilian lives are reduced to acceptable losses, dissent is reclassified as sabotage, and anything that complicates the optics of victory is erased from the narrative. 

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At the heart of the war effort, an Ahresh commander forged by hardship and a human doctor embedded on his crew as a gesture of reconciliation are forced into uneasy proximity aboard the warship driving the assault. One is tasked with keeping the war machine moving; the other refuses to forget who is being crushed beneath its momentum.  â€‹

 

As the pressure mounts, fractures begin to spread through the resistance itself. Long-suppressed disagreements boil over into open conflict, and the lines between liberation, retaliation, and domination begin to blue. The closer victory comes, the more the war tests what its leaders are willing to lose—and who they are willing to sacrifice. 

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Read an Excerpt from Chapter 1

Upcoming Release

Beyond the Ninth

An Upcoming Fantasy-Romance Novella

Istovan Oliir has drowned once already. The Sea took him, remade him, and spat him back into the world marked and bound to its will. Now, desperate to use this second chance to free himself of his infernal bloodline once and for all, he sails in search of the mythical Ninth Current—a passage rumored to lead beyond the reach of gods and devils alike. 

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Annette, a runaway Seer hunted by the king's guard, never intended to tangle herself up with the likes of pirates and sailors. Yet, a pendant she swipes binds her life to Istovan's, dragging her aboard his ship and into a voyage that may just set her free from the visions that plague her. 

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What begins as a debt turns into something much more dangerous: a slow, inexorable pull between captor and captive, between dreamer and devil. With freedom on the line, they both must decide what they are willing to sacrifice to attain it. 

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Read the Prologue and Chapter 1

Short Stories

Various Short Stories

The Remainder

​Ten prisoners. One pardon.
In a state-sanctioned hunt known as the Clemency Run, mercy is promised to the last man standing. As the forest becomes a killing field, survival becomes an exercise in subtraction—cutting away guilt, compassion, and humanity piece by piece. Freedom is possible. Absolution is not.​

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Worms

A forensic anthropologist’s lifelong obsession with decay leads them to a body farm where the dead are left to be reclaimed by the earth. When their reverence for the process turns into a desire to join it, they learn that death offers no release.​

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Again

A performer moves through an endless, unseen production, repeating the same steps long after the audience is gone. As their sense of self begins to fracture, what remains is not just terror, but grief—for the life and the future that the show will never give back.​

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A Letter Concerning the Measure of God

A final letter from a disgraced theologian recounts a revelation that shatters every human idea of God. What he found in the frozen north was not a being of love or judgment, but an infinite presence so vast and indifferent that it renders faith, prayer, and scripture terrifyingly small.​

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Paracosom

Poetry

A series of poems about childhood, nostalgia, and learning to love yourself. 

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Inspired by my youth and the discovery of my personal identity, this project is ongoing and free to read in its entirety at the link below.

Additional Poetry

Poetry

Individual poems not yet bound to any collection or theme, these are works which have yet to find their final home. 

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