Fiction

I am currently revising two novels:

Once Home: What if, after the fear, catastrophe, and rage, the end of the world felt like the piercing ache of lost love? In the near future, a forty-four-year-old woman, a foul-mouthed sculptor and aspiring poet, wakes up from a nap in the windswept dunes of Cape Cod and believes she is the only person alive on earth. The landscape around her has transformed: the sea level has risen and she is stranded on a newly formed island. Faced with unprecedented aloneness, she must navigate her new reality to survive and find meaning in this wholly altered world. 

Over four seasons, the unnamed protagonist seeks food and resources, befriends a pair of ravens, and attempts to finish a self-portrait that has confounded her for years. But as she grows comfortable in her new reality, she begins to have strange experiences, periodically slipping into full-body hallucinatory memories, and conversing with the reflection of her younger self in the mirror. As she reckons with her solitude and the mystery of what has befallen the rest of humanity, she aches for her dear friends and the love who slipped out of her grasp too soon. 

An exploration of nature, grief, memories, art, and love, Once Home explores how we might embrace the beauty and the ferocity of our world, and discover the magic and hope of our own existence on this planet, before it’s too late.

The Darkest Skies:  The story of two gifted scholars of the natural sciences who are entangled by dark supernatural forces on a wild and mysterious island nation in the North Atlantic. The Darkest Skies was shortlisted in this year’s, William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition in the novel in progress category.