Short Stories

The Hinge of Midsummer

The story is my semi-autobiographical short story about leaving Italy as a child and moving to Chicago. Through the eyes of my eight-year-old self, it remembers and describes the moment that changed my life forever.

Spanish Moss

In a small corrupt town amidst the bayous of Louisianna, a local historian reopens the investigation into a wealthy widow's disappearance. This stormy night forces him to confront secrets buried deeper than the grave.

A pastor’s secret life begins to unravel after a single encounter forces him to confront the distance between the man he appears to be and the man he has become. Set in the heat of Tuscaloosa, this story explores guilt, faith, temptation, and the search for redemption.

James

A (very) short historical story set on the American frontier during the age of the railroad, about an Indigenous man confronting the forces that destroyed his world.

Iron Snake

Poetry

A Theology of Falling Things

A poem about a snowfall that turned into a mediation about my memories, desires, and the passage of time.

Written thirty thousand feet above the earth, this piece follows my mind in between surrender and survival, searching the darkness for a reason to remain.

The Eulogy of Myself

Flying (for my Father)

Part elegy, part thank-you letter, this poem follows me wrestling with my father's addiction. Looking back on a childhood photograph, it traces seeing my father as a hero, to seeing him as a flawed man, and loving him more deeply because of it.

Beautiful Noise

A story about a young woman loving a musician, learning to love the music that shaped him, and accepting that some beautiful songs were never meant to last forever.