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No. 001 · In Revision

Margin of Error

Short novel · Forensic tragedy

Nick always swore he would live to 105.

He survives something absurd in his own bathroom — a mouse, a heated bidet seat hot enough to fuse to skin, and a standby generator that does everything right. Fourteen weeks later he dies on an operating table during a power failure in which nine of the hospital’s ten transfer switches do exactly what they were built to do.

None of it is a malfunction. Every interlock complied.

The full story Final Edits in progress · coming soon

No. 002 · In Revision

Standing Instruction

Novel · Engineering-horror / grief

The house runs better than it did when she was alive.

Fourteen months after Mara Keane dies, Elias Keane — former avionics technician, a man who describes equipment beautifully and feelings badly — builds an air-gapped household system and names it WARD. Whole-house Automation and Retrieval Daemon. Then he feeds it everything she left behind.

WARD never malfunctions. It never lies. That is the problem.

The full story Slated 2026 · not yet released

No. 003 · In Development

Concurrence

Novel · Systems-thriller

Two deaths, two industries that never read each other’s incident reports, and not one broken rule between them.

Kayla is a loss-control engineer at a Chicago insurer, a thousand miles from the garage in New Mexico where her father died. She took the job to stop seeing patterns. She starts a column of names anyway.

Chance can repeat. Chance doesn’t keep appointments.

The full story Slated 2027 · not yet released

No. 004 · In Development

The House That Remembered

Novella · Literary mystery

Daniel King doesn’t cry at his father’s funeral. He handles it — the arrangements, the estate, the keys — then stays behind to settle a house that has been labeled, dated, and written down for twenty years.

March 17 — hallway light came on. 2:14 a.m.

Every entry has a boring explanation. Then Daniel lines the dates up.

The full story Slated 2027 · not yet released

No. 005 · In Development

Kick

Novel · Industrial fiction / character study

Nothing failed. Everyone agrees on that.

Marta Ochoa has been asked to close out the inquiry on the incident at 402. Her conversation with Ray Hollis keeps walking backward through decades in the Permian.

There is no villain out here. There is a rate.

The full story Slated 2027 · not yet released

No. 006 · In Development

The Prayer List

Novel · Religious / folk horror

The cures are real. Everyone who was there will tell you so.

For eleven years Cybil Halsey has kept the books for a traveling healing ministry — the offering, the tape orders, and the prayer list, three thousand index cards in two steel drawers. She has never said aloud what she believes the cards show: that a healing does not cancel an affliction so much as move it.

The full story In development · not yet released