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  • Third-Party, Blameless – the one-person adaptation

    Adapted as a one-woman show, this is the version which came second in The One Festival in June 2026. In my first Off-Off-Broadway production, Jaida Rojas played (and slayed as) Jane.

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  • Third-Party, Blameless

    A woman stands by the side of the road as her husband argues with the man whose car just hit their rear bumper.

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  • logo for The Badge - a graphic of watermelon slice in the colors of the Palestinian flag

    The Badge

    He just wants to have lunch with his partner and her family; the Maître d’ wants to stop him because of the badge on his lapel. It’s a free country – except for this. Make it make sense!

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  • A roman fibula broach, a piece of curved bronze with a crude spring and pin

    City

    Jonathan steps out into the Berlin night to meet history, his late father, and his girlfriend’s girlfriend. This flash work scooped third place in the Darling Axe First Page Novel Challenge 2025

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  • BUYSEXUAL

    After 34 years of marriage, Leslie thinks life has no surprises left in store for her. That is until her husband makes a shocking request…

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  • A mallet being used to crack a boiled egg

    Mazzolatura {FTP}

    In the secret police HQ of a fictional central European country, two agents bring in a suspect for questioning. Despite the fact the year is 2025 and the prisoner is a 22-year-old woman, they quickly establish what they had suspected: this is in fact Pope John Paul II.

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  • Honestly

    Why visit the revenge upon the children when you can serve it cold to the source of the problem – the parent?

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  • Castles in the Air

    One minor altercation around the differences between British English and the American version, and things go awry. Won’t somebody please think of the children?

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  • Attack Ships

    A micro, alternative, creative non-fiction piece. One day, I will write this piece…

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  • 25/75

    Like most talentless billionaires, Gareth Cooper has his own TV show:

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  • Spandau: A Powerpoint

    Learn more about this experimental creative, non-fiction essay about the naming of the British 80s/90s pop sensation Spandau Ballet… and a light machine gun

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  • or learn his magick

    She is the woman your mother warned you about… if your mother was undead and you were summoned by a hex. But, hey: Denny’s afterwards as a special treat.

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  • Groom

    This is how they destroy children’s lives. Covered up for you by the Vatican and the Government of Canada.

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  • an optometrist chart view partially through a pair of glasses, clarifying a portion

    Hindsight

    Come on, don’t pretend you know the difference! No one actually knows the difference… except her of course.

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  • Learned from You

    Children: they teach us so much, or so I am told. This one taught its parents at least one life-saving procedure

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  • The Gravity of Childcare

    It takes extreme measures to leverage extreme benefits. What’s a little brain damage between sisters?

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  • The King of Ithaca

    A short story about my grandfather’s return from World War II. You can read this story from 2023 in the beautiful Sumac Literary Journal.

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