Genre Bending Speculative Fiction Author
Stories of the Granite Letter
A Thrutopian Speculative Fiction Triology
Bodies of Light
After a series of apocalyptic events––ecological collapse, water wars, the “great die-off”, and the more recent prepper wars, Bodies of Light is set in a time of recovery in what-was Wisconsin. The story follows sixteen-year-old Alia—grief-stricken at the loss of her sister, hunted by white nationalist dragons, and entrusted with an impossible task to save the last and best of humanity’s hopes.
Alia is a lone wolf in a recovering community that lives in balance with nature, reveres science, and prizes the distinction between fact and belief. She’s lost nearly everything to the white nationalist who roam the wilderness—her parents, her adopted sister Clee, even her will to live.
But when a dying courier thrusts a mysterious green pack into her arms, Alia becomes the reluctant bearer of the Hope Chest, containing powerful relics from another world and her community’s most sacred text, the Granite Letter. To protect it, she must evade capture, confront betrayal, and endure a harrowing journey toward a distant Enclave of Reason, 800 kilometers south in what-was Kansas.
Told in Alia’s unique voice through her raw, unfiltered journal entries, Bodies of Light weaves post-collapse folklore, trauma healing, found family, and near-future tech into a story of one young woman bearing the keys to the survival of a free and open society.
Fans of Parable of the Sower, Station Eleven, and The Last of Us will find affinity with Alia and her journey through a broken world teetering between recovery and demise. Bodies of Light is the first book in a trilogy of brief novels that unfold across multiple generations, continuing with Bodies of Light Part 2 and culminating in One Fire, Many Flames.
One Fire, Many Flames
In what was the United States, 120 years in our future, two rival groups remain: white supremacists (aka “dragons”) and the Community of Enclaves of Reason.
The Elders of the Lawrence Enclave of Reason task Seeker Arisia with finding the lost Hope Chest, which holds keys to the survival of a free and open society. But if the dragons locate it first, they will destroy it as part of their plan to eradicate the Enclaves of Reason and resurrect a white, authoritarian nation. Arisia and her team journey through wilderness crawling with dragons to the ruins of Kansas City in their search for the Hope Chest. But the dragons have an ace up their sleeve: a spy on Arisia’s team.
Meanwhile, 30 years in our future, during a mission to the far side of the moon, astronaut Sam falls into a deep depression due to looming climate catastrophes at the same moment that he hears an odd trilling sound and passes out. Unable to find the source of the trill, Sam returns home to Wisconsin, where he struggles to follow through on a commitment to his wife to have a child and start a family in a faltering world. In a bid to recover his lost hope and save his marriage, Sam ventures to Venus on a mission for an obsessed, eccentric billionaire. There, Sam discovers the source of the trill he heard on the moon, which may save humanity’s future—if he survives.
And 12,000 years in our past, in what will become Wisconsin, ten-year-old Shyaklá, ever curious and adventurous, hears a strange trill that implores her to journey to a nearby hilltop. There, a mysterious creature offers the promise of a gift that will save Shyaklá’s world from being eaten by fire. But to retrieve the gift, Shyaklá and her community must do the impossible: journey to the evening and morning star.
Across time and space, Arisia, Sam, and Shyaklá must complete their quests to save the future of those they will never know.