Book Preview – Ashes Before Dawn

Invitation to Ruin “I left the window open hoping the night would answer.” He lingers at the threshold, a shadow carved from hunger, a whisper you almost mistake for wind. He cannot step inside— not yet. Not until you say the words, until you open the door with trembling hands and the kind of naivety […]

Water & Ice

You and I. water and ice, two reflections of the same untamed tide. I move freely, slipping through fingers, you stand still, sharp and crystalline. yet beneath it all, we are one.   I whisper in currents, restless and wild, you hold steady, frozen in time, but touch me long enough, and I will soften […]

Tides of You

Tides of You The ocean does not wait for you. It pulls and pushes, endless, unrelenting, washing the shore clean only to leave it raw again. I stand at the edge, my feet sinking into the sand, wondering how it feels to let go completely. The salt in the air, the taste of what’s never […]

The Thing About Ghosts…

Ghost Year I’ve spent the last year as a ghost, slipping between rooms without a sound, pressing my hands to walls that no longer recognize my touch. I move, but I do not arrive. I speak, but the words pass through me. I reach, but everything dissolves before my fingers can close around it. I […]