Even when I'm not writing, I'm writing.

Writing

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    Zealots and Tyrants

    A strategy consultant desperate to save her family risks her prized career and pristine reputation to investigate the dark truth behind society’s sharp increase in extremism.

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    Short Form

    Links to my recently published short fiction and essays.

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    Get Your Needs Met

    When a control-obsessed project manager feels constrained by traditional marriage, she must decide whether to divorce her loving husband before their appointment at a fertility clinic.

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    Invisible Gorilla

    A cancelled bizfluencer confronts the dark side of the superficiality he leveraged to launch his career in discovering how low he’ll go to get back the glitz before he loses everything.

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    Observing Leslie

    Observing Leslie is a creative outlet through which I explore, discover, and discuss topics spanning travel to social science.

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    The Letter

    A personal e-mail from me on a roughly monthly basis exploring cross-cultural and historical observations.