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Deep Dives
A sampling of my various works, emphasizing my different specialties in writing. Everything I make is largely character-driven, but the styles range from prose-heavy, to bantering back and forth dialogue, to experimental psychedelic pieces.
As a disclaimer, many of these pieces feature explicit language or depictions of serious topics.
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Short Stories;
Only Each Other -
What is it?
"She took the bottle with a lazy peace sign in place of thanks, her eyes fixed on the rolling plain below us. The pink-lemonade tinge of the setting-sun-sky blended into the horizon, reflected by the surface of the pond at the bottom of the hill."
A 14-Page piece made for my Counting Kiwi Seeds project, featuring two mini stories from different times and perspectives. Based around a young couple before and after a serious medical diagnosis.
Sanctuary -
What is it?
"For a moment, we were back to how things were. Trading jokes instead of whiffing them…just enjoying being together. It would’ve been the perfect time for the clouds to make way for the moon as some symbolic gesture. Alas, they sat stubbornly, like old men playing cards while someone asked to clean the table."
A 29-Page character piece driven largely by tagless dialogue. Set in a fantasy world, it tackles worldbuilding purely through subtext and dialogue amidst the tension of a man who ran away and the girl who scoured miles of land just to find him lazing on a hill.
Cutscenes & Scriptwriting;
Counting Kiwi Seeds -
What is it?
“The seeds are the same in every fruit. I don’t know exactly how many there are, but I know it’s finite. I can stress over counting each and every seed, making sure I know exactly how many are left...Or I can stop caring about how many there are, and use them to count all the times you make me laugh.”
A mid-game cutscene from Counting Kiwi Seeds, features heavy symbolism and cinematography. A terminally ill character discusses her philosophy for the time she has left with her significant other.
Haphephobia -
What is it?
"You’d be surprised how many people bend over backwards once you make a sob story out of it. I usually go with head trauma or something. Apparently, some people can go blind from that. Sucks to be them, am I right? Can you imagine seeing color for a decade, just to catch a stray baseball and then wham, pure blackness?"
A 63 page play in 2 Acts. Showcases the start of an unlikely friendship between a blind woman who takes social advantage of her condition and a man with an extreme aversion to touch, covering themes of vulnerability and connection through the lens of visible and invisible disability.
Experimental/Psychedelic;
Kaleidoscopic -
What is it?
"Calling it the light feels erroneous, as it implies a sense of uniformity. Instead it is fractured, one pane shattered into myriad windows, each one dancing an indiscernible rhythm around a single source. It is a draw felt deep in whatever has replaced my bones."
An 11-Page sci-fi story where the PoV character has a shattered perspective of time. The story covers her piecing her memory back together from a jumbled order of events, and makes rather interesting use of footnotes. If you've ever read Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine, the inspiration might be clear.
The [YOU] Machine -
"In there, it must seem so real. Real enough to make out here seem fake, or at just as likely to be simulated. But I could tip [YOU] over right now, spill your [YOU] all over the carpet and watch the color leak from the screen until all that’s left is static and the lingering scent of ozone. But to [YOU], it must seem so real. "
A 9-Page piece tackling the question of continual consciousness, specifically if a digitized human consciousness could ever truly be proven to be the same person as before, from the lens of a figure whose significant other underwent such a procedure.
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