writings

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STILL LIFE WITH NEGLECTED BOTTLE

A flash fiction story

Published in the October, 2023 issue of Ariel Chart.

https://www.arielchart.com/2023/10/still-life-with-neglected-bottle.html

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TRANSPATHIC

A speculative YA novel

Currently seeking representation and publication

Arvo wants nothing more than to manage his anxiety, make friends at his new school, and have his family back together.   But, one-by-one his household has been split apart to assist or resist the over-reaching biosensory marketing technology, Attention Dynamics. The Dynamics’ sensors translate emotional data into aggressive sensory stimuli to encourage purchases, but they are damaging some people’s free will.  Arvo witnesses the unjust exposure that influences and sometimes cripples people, but can he master his anxieties, overcome ethical doubts, and use Transpathics, a technique of stealthy emotional transference, to intervene and make a difference?

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photo by Roopak Ravi

STUDY IN BLUE

A YA short story

Kayla is determined to do well at her summer jobs so she can one day become a doctor. She resists the distractions posed by her friend, April, and her confusing co-workers, Mika and Miles, until her assumptions no longer make sense.  Or maybe it’s people who don’t make sense.  Or maybe it’s her. 

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