What's Next?
Author's Note
The picture in the heading, one of the few headings that is mine and not Weebly's, is of Mono Lake. Everything is sharp, salty, and alien, with the rocky peaks and the saline water seeming to belong to another world or another time. I think it is one of the most beautiful places, but also one of the most terrifying. If that isn't a metaphor for the future, I don't know what is. Here is a list of upcoming, longer projects.
Lost Town: A Novel
Presented as a Gothic fantasy mixed with dark humor, Lost Town spans the intersecting lives and stories of a classic, American town in its final days. Behind picket fences, as white washed as the town mythology, a darkness lurks, one which needs blood to be satiated. The novel focuses on various institutions of the town: the city hall, the college, the elementary school, the high school, and the church, weaving together these places and their inhabitants.
Lighthouses of the Oregon Coast
Lighthouses of the Oregon coast is an autofiction novel, focusing on two trips up the Oregon coast. The first section follows me as a boy when my father had an unexpected medical emergency, the other section takes place when I'm a young man, helping a friend move to grad school, and our truck is broken into. Between these sections are vignettes about lighthouses, which highlight the character's emotions through a more objective lens. The piece handles themes of loss, grief, adulthood, place, and the importance of navigational aids.
The Taste of Sadness and Other Stories
A series of darkly comedic stories focusing on human problems through the eyes of super intelligent animals. The collection features a pig with daddy issues going to therapy, a panda tired of being set up on blind dates, and a critical reevaluation of the "five little piggies" toe chant through a post, post-modern lens.