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 Writing 

Nonfiction

A Phenomenology of Music Dreams and Ekphrastic Implications

My master's thesis (2025).

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Laundry Analysis

After months of seeing considerable frustration with my accommodation's laundry situation vented in group chats, a friend inspired me to do some reseach. 

This is that research. 

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for psychological papers: click here

Short Fiction

Giorgio de Chirico, The Song of  Love (1914), cropped from original.

Notes on the Problem

Motion sickness is not an adequate explanation, despite appearing at face value more explanatory than quantum superposition of electrons (humans are not electrons), mystic bilocation (only for sancteous superstition), the rubber hand illusion (whence a rubber eye?), and any number of other useless inquiries.  All of these are different from what I want to know, which is how it can be that one person may seem to be in two places at once—and only from the inside.

Published in the Rutgers Anthologist, Spring 2026 Issue [forthcoming].

Andrea Mantegna, La Parnassus (1496-1497), detail.

Gradus ab Parnassum

Having finally arrived, it wasn’t exactly clear what we were meant to do next.  The muses were there all right, but not so much in the state we had been imagining.  They were in repose, if it could be called that, flung all about the Tithorean scree, lounging in the rubble of what looked like the unlucky confluence of multiple avalanches with an astonishing quantity of classical architecture...

Published in the Rutgers Anthologist, Fall 2025 Issue pp. 17–20.

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Arthur Streeton, Canal, Moonlight (1908), cropped from original.

Paper Stile

...entrained over the course of actions speak louder than words cannot express the depth of fields and through the would you be so kind as to and two makes for no good dreams from which you wake of recent events of which we heard even here it goes again and again and again a density of meaning to do better these days and nights and morning or good afternoon I meant to say the letters as fast as you...

Published in the Rutgers Anthologist, Fall 2025 Issue pp. 26–27.

Interactive Fiction

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The Maze Without Walls

Oh, hello there, welcome. I see you’ve found the Maze Without Walls.

Stay awhile, hang your coat on the tree. Take a look around. 

Version 1.0

(2024)

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The Labyrinth, Part 1:  From Darkness

The first part of a series of surreal adventures within the Labyrinth.

A lengthy narrative, and highly replayable, with five main locations manifesting differently depending on the order encountered, as well as four unique companion characters you can choose to have accompany you—or else go alone.  Many paths lead to one ending (...or are there more?).

Inspired by dreams, reality, language, and too many other things to enumerate.

What will you find in the architecture of the maze?

(2022)

it is not today
that more writing will appear
but perhaps one day


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