About

I am an amateur storyteller trying to hone my skills and garner feedback on fiction I’ve written.

I firmly believe that existence demands empathy. By that I mean that the mere fact that something exists, that means that it deserves empathy.

We all contend with the same hardships of a vast indifferent universe, stuck on a planet that’s dense with life, all trying to survive.

If we see that light in each other living thing we see the similarities. We see the same struggles.

An ant relies on the same sun as the plant it eats, the same plant that feeds great beasts. The whole of life relies on each other and our actions should be dictated by a communal effort to ensure the highest quality of life we can all share.

No one above another, beyond the basic requirements of life. No competition. There is enough if we live in harmony with the other beings here, we know that it’s possible because it was done that way for millennia before the Anthropocene.

We are all here being provided the same ecosystem on the same planet. We need to learn the old ways and to find new ways to build a better world. A better world that likely will look like it did before the current paradigms were established, but with way cooler tech.

So I want to write stories where things aren’t simply strife and drama, but rather stories where things may not always go right, people at least try to do right.

Because that’s how I try to live. I try to live recognizing the light in others and write stories of how we can share the warmth with everything else that’s blessed with life.

I really hope I’m doing alright at it. I hope to keep getting better until I get let go of this meat marionette I get to see the world in. Then all that mass I gathered gets to become a part of another cycle of life and history moves on without me.

My only legacy will be the things I did to make the world a better place. Maybe it’ll all be a fart in the wind. A mighty wind, I hope.

I live in the United States, I’m married to my best friend (and favorite person), and have two cats.

I dream of teaching for a living, but somewhere beautiful. Maybe grow our family, start a community center, and teach people technology and ancestral skills. Who knows.