Short fiction. A Test of Tales.

Every story begins before the first word. Madame & The Foe begins before the first human.

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Madame & The Foe is a short fiction collection that moves across time, morality, and the permanent strangeness of being alive. These are not stories about plot. They are stories about condition — the internal weather of characters at moments that define or destroy them.

The collection opens before humanity exists and ends somewhere inside it. Between those two points: masks worn so long they became faces. Men who tried to be good and couldn't define the word. Love mistaken for something more reliable than it is. Courtrooms. Fractures. Shame that has a colour.

Each story is a test. What the characters do with the test is the literature.

Compressed. Mythic in register. Unresolved where resolution would be dishonest.

Madame & The Foe is a collection for readers who understand that the most important things are always slightly out of reach — and that the reaching is the point.

Available soon.

Memoir. Essay. Manifesto. 50,000 words.

There is a version of you the world decided on before you opened your mouth.

The Disgraced One is the argument against that verdict.

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The Disgraced One is not a memoir in the conventional sense. It does not ask for sympathy. It does not perform redemption. It is a reckoning — structured across four movements that move from the external gaze inward, and from the personal outward into culture.

The Gaze. The Weight. The Culture. The Reckoning.

Each movement carries its own logic. Together they form a complete philosophical argument about identity, inheritance, perception, and the cost of being seen incorrectly for long enough that you begin to see yourself the same way.

This is a book about disgrace as a condition imposed from the outside. And about what a person does — what a person must do — when they decide to stop accepting the imposition.

Written in compressed, declarative prose. No apology. No resolution that hasn't been earned.

Available soon.