The Collected Works · 2025 to 2026

Works.

These are my works. The word is deliberate. I call them works instead of books because some of them will be novels, yes, but some may become short fiction, essays bound together, screenplays if I ever manage it. A book is a container. A work does not care what container it ends up in.

Dear reader,
What I write about, since you asked, since you stayed.

Deadpan, witty, irreverent, satirical, gothic and if the page wants it, erotic without apology. Call it dark comedy if you need a shelf for it. The labels are fine.

The trade is this: I write about the small machines of cruelty people run on each other, mostly without noticing, sometimes with the slow pride of a craftsman finishing a desk. Marriages with structural rot. Divorces with quarterly forecasts. Love when it is performing a chore. Sex with anatomical patience, never with the lights off. The dead and the people who fold their hands over them.

The laughter is always there. It is the lever the dark uses to lift you closer. Keep staying.

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The books.

A catalogue of works in print and in progress.

Of Love and Other Nightmares - Volume II

In writing

Expected October 2026

Of Love and Other Nightmares - Volume II

The cruelties continue, the bizarreries fair

Released 22 May 2026

Of Love and Other Nightmares - Volume I

A Mosaic of Desire, Oddities and Ruin.

Read in four parts.

Each part is a curated sequence · click any title to read

Part I.Notes from the Empire's Edge

Pars I.

Notes from the Empire's Edge

On nations that have stopped believing in themselves and the strange theatre of their unraveling: competition, conformity, and the comfort of an honest tyrant.

№ 1 One Nation, Under *New* Management 10 Jul 2026 3 min № 2 How I Learned *to Stop Worrying* and Appreciate Authoritarianism's Honest Branding 18 Apr 2026 8 min № 3 The Fake Churchill Quote 31 Aug 2025 4 min № 4 Nationalism's Favourite Colour 13 Aug 2025 11 min № 5 Stones 02 May 2025 6 min № 6 Money's Velvet Fist 11 Apr 2025 3 min

Pars II.

An Anatomy of Longing

The body keeps an inventory the mind refuses to read. Mothers, lovers, masks, and the small failures of the things we call ours.

№ 1 Disposable Humanity 15 Jul 2026 4 min № 2 The day my mother died 02 Apr 2026 2 min № 3 Muscle Memory 20 Feb 2026 1 min № 4 On Longing 31 Jul 2025 2 min

Part II.An Anatomy of Longing

Part III.On Believing

Pars III.

On Believing

Religion as comfort rather than truth, and the cost of building lives on stories we already half-know to be untrue. The blueprints for self-rupture, drawn small.