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Literary Fiction & Thriller

Flashdrive

Tech Thriller

Retribution

Thriller

And The Earth Circles The Sun

Literary Fiction

Coming Soon

The Moon Winked

Short Story Collection

The Moon Winked

Short Story Collection · Coming Soon

In The Moon Winked, ordinary people face the quiet crossroads that define a life — the moments when compassion costs something, when forgiveness reshapes identity, when doing the right thing means losing what you’ve built. Each story turns on a single human decision and traces its ripples through guilt, grace, and consequence. There are no miracles here, only choices. The gravity of empathy. The orbit of regret.

From “The Ripple Effect”

She saw his name before she saw his face. Application: Personal Loan — Applicant: Jacob R. Hensley. The letters hit her like a memory she never asked to revisit. A locker slamming. A girl crying in the bathroom. His laugh echoing down the hallway, sharp as a thrown stone. Marisa Cole — now Bank Manager Cole — straightened the stack of forms on her desk. She hadn’t thought about Jacob Hensley in years. Life had moved on, and she had built something steady, respectable, earned. But the past has a way of circling back, not as a ghost, but as a customer with an appointment at 3:15. When he walked in, she almost didn’t recognize him. He looked deflated. Not older — collapsed. His credit was wrecked. His employment history was a patchwork of short-term gigs. On paper, he was a terrible candidate. But paper never tells the whole story. He reached into his jacket and pulled out a folded packet of papers — creased, smudged, handled to death. He slid them across the desk with trembling fingers. “Just… read it.” This wasn’t a man making excuses. This was a father drowning.

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Flashdrive

Tech Thriller

When a series of “suicides” intersects with a high-stakes tech offering, the truth points to a conspiracy built on ambition, betrayal, and buried secrets. At the center is a flash drive holding data powerful enough to bring down a company and the people who built it. In a world where information is the ultimate currency, some files were never meant to surface.

From the opening pages

Karla Perry was cold. Not physically. The sun beating down on her was warm, soothing. She stood on the gravel, legs shoulder width apart, pivoting on the balls of her feet. She wanted to anchor herself to the earth. From her vantage point, she could see the Cabrillo Highway carved into the side of the hills that loomed over the coast. To the south the road snaked along as far as the eye could see. North, it twisted and turned before the hills swallowed it in a dark hole. Karla’s car was parked on a pullout facing the ocean. The Pacific stretched endlessly to the west until a straight line separated the two blues. A cloudless sky. A waveless ocean. Not even a discernable puff of a breeze. Karla held her breath.

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Retribution

Thriller

A man born into a mafia family races to save his own life as his dying mother’s clock runs down. With the Family always watching and a federal agent as his only hope, Jason Stone walks into FBI headquarters with a desperate gamble and a single confession. Living is the best revenge — but first he has to survive.

From Chapter One

I know death. Death has visited my family like an unwanted uncle who shows up without warning and overstays his welcome. Uncle Death took my father when I was twelve and is now visiting my mother, tugging her toward the grave one cancerous cell at a time. And when the job is complete, I’m next. I’m determined to meet fate with force of will. I refuse to be snuffed out because of my family’s mafia lineage and all the strings attached to us like a macabre puppet. It’s time to save my own life, live for my dying mother, and live because it is better than death and not as permanent. Living is the best revenge.

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And The Earth Circles The Sun

Short Story Collection

And The Earth Circles The Sun is a collection of stories about the quiet moments that shape a life and the unseen forces that bind people to one another. Moving through time, memory, and consequence, these stories reveal how the smallest choices can echo for years. Each piece captures the fragile, luminous human truths we often overlook.

From the collection

Every morning opens the same. Dark. The night not fully ingested, the sun not peeking through the black curtains of the horizon. A black canvas. This is the hour she loves — the thin, fragile seam between night and day, when the world hasn’t yet decided what it’s going to be. She moves through the space with the quiet certainty of someone who has always belonged more to stillness than to people. Most people never notice the little things. Most people don’t look. She learned that long before she had words for it. By eighteen, she’d learned to hide her intelligence the way other girls hid bruises.

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