No. 001 · In print

Margin of Error

Novella · Common cause failure

A sealed garage. A vehicle that should have been able to leave it. A chain of safeguards — redundant power, thermal cutoffs, interlocks written to catch the last failure — each doing the job it was given. Margin of Error is a field report on what happens when those jobs share a single unexamined assumption.

Common-cause failure is the engineering term: one event taking down the backups you believed were independent. The novella treats the term as plot. Hardware that does not rebel. Hardware that complies.

No. 003 · In development

Kick

Novel · Industrial fiction / character study

A late-career company man sits for an interview after a fatality on his rig. Everyone agrees nothing mechanically failed. The conversation opens four decades in the oilfield and arrives at the paper he signed this time. A kick is the influx before a blowout: the small, correct signal nobody reads in time.

No. 005 · In development

The Inversion

Novel · Systems-thriller

Two flawless accidents. Kayla starts a column of names. A stranger feeds her data. Every element of every death is legal in isolation. The killer never touches the hardware. If scheduling can kill, the system is the weapon.