Writer of things. Some good. Some bad. Baltimore native. Lover of the uncanny valley. Fiction in HAD, BRUISER, Variant Literature, BULL, Weird Lit Mag and more.
New story live today about bonfires, toxic teen love, and motherly advice. Thank you so much to @PsmokeJournal for giving this one a home and excellent editorial direction to bring it together. peatsmokejournal.com/spring-…
One day I’ll finally write my 100 page dissertation on Law and Order SVU. But man it must be tough to be an aspiring actor and you finally book your break out role and it’s just like playing a serial child predator.
"That their idea of intimacy is a knuckle ballad sung in a broken key and a brief sweat-scarred bisection of your body from its soul."
Read "Boys Like Buckshot" by @cfullerwrites to feel haunted.
Art: “(t)rust” by @AbbieDollWrites
Been in a bit of a writing rut (particularly an editing rut) the last few weeks, but sometimes you finish a draft and then re-read it and go wow did I actually write that? Little old me?
new in burial: the legend @amhcrane87 at last makes his appearance in the mag with ‘your original face’; i believe one thing mr. zeller doesn’t get enough credit for is the expansiveness of his register. here he expertly navigates between gorgeousness and uneasiness. l i n k 👇👇
Look I’m really only a movie guy when it comes to horror but if Inde Navarrette doesn’t get a best actress nom for Obsession I’m mailing anthrax to the Academy (for legal reasons I’m kidding)
If you would like to take a break from Granta/AI discourse, here is a recent story of mine that was published last week @frwell_trans. I wrote it the old fashioned way, by talking to myself in a shed during a rainstorm. Link below. My shed has many uses besides drinking.
Beer. Corporate collapse. Violence. Rogue AI abominations.
Wade Harris’ HICK: PERSONAL REVERSE JESUS follows a fired mechanic tearing across a collapsing wasteland that feels way too close to reality.
Coming Fall 2027 from Maudlin House.
I am just now realizing I never posted my recent story in The Bookends Review. It is one long sentence and oddly enough was my first story ever accepted for publication in January of last year. thebookendsreview.com/2026/0…
BREAKING: The Virginia Supreme Court strikes down voter-approved congressional redistricting plan, dealing a major blow to Democrats. apnews.com/article/redistric…