The Reader I Write For
She has read enough books to know what she is tired of. The romances that move like machinery. The suspense that keeps …
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Five Things I Didn't Know How to Finish
I've been carrying these five women for years. Not as drafts, exactly — more as a knowledge I kept postponing. This is …
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A Story That Knows You're There
A visual novel is not exactly a book. It is not exactly a game. It is something that happens in the space between those…
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Two Books, and What They Have in Common
Two books. Two women in houses that are keeping something from them. I did not plan for them to speak to each other — b…
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The Other Kind of Writing
There is writing, and then there is this other kind of writing. The kind where you have to write the same moment three …
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Forty Days
There is a condition. Forty days of continuous residence before the estate is yours. No one told you that before you ar…
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The Portrait Beneath the Portrait
This book began in Portuguese. What it became in English is the same story — and also something it could not have been …
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Inside Vale Hollow
The prologue opens on a Tuesday afternoon in late autumn. The protagonist has just arrived. The house is quieter than e…
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Hollow Letter Studio
There is a specific kind of exhaustion that comes from building something alone. Not the romantic kind, where solitude …
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