The Magician is a short story set in the 1969 world of inner-city church work in the Midwest, told through the eyes of a nineteen-year-old volunteer. It examines the uneasy space between compassion and reality, and the often-sad consequences of good intentions in a failing system.

West Mesa Pickers is a one-act stage play set in an abandoned diner on Route 66 near West Mesa, New Mexico. Through the wandering conversation of an elderly woman and her grandson, the play explores memory, loss, and disappearance, and the stories people tell themselves in order to live with what cannot be resolved.

Selected Poems from Archipelago is a collection centered on memory and displacement and the interior lives shaped by American landscapes. Moving between personal history and social observation, the poems reflect on what is carried forward and what is left behind, and how people endure within systems that often fail them.

Pacific Theater is a nine-part mini-epic poem built from imagined wartime letters written during the Pacific campaign of World War II. Moving between intimacy and brutality, the poem examines how memory, sexuality, patriotism, and violence coexist within a single life, and how the artifacts of war are carried forward long after the fighting ends.

The Falling Tower is a short story set across memory, captivity, and intimate recollection, following a young American soldier held in a prisoner-of-war camp during the Vietnam era. Moving between brutal present conditions and formative moments of love, desire, and regret, the story examines how identity fractures under extreme pressure and how human connection persists even as the structures that once gave meaning begin to collapse.

Book is a one-act absurdist play that examines censorship, compliance, and psychological coercion through the lens of an institutional intake process. Set in a sparse office where unhoused youth are promised safety and nourishment, the play explores how language, surveillance, and ritualized questioning are manipulated to enforce conformity and suppress dissent.

Epitaph is a one-act stage play that unfolds in the aftermath of a young person’s death, as a series of conversations between the deceased and those tasked with interpreting their final moments. Moving between memory, identity, and imagined reconciliation, the play explores grief, ambiguity, and the limits of understanding when a life is reduced to evidence.

Shakespeare’s Alley is a one-act play set in an urban alleyway, where an aging former actor and a young unhoused woman form an unlikely connection through shared language. Drawing on scenes from Romeo and Juliet, the play explores love, displacement, aging, and the fragile ways people care for one another at the margins.