Category: My Thoughts

When I look at the stories I keep returning to, one thing connects almost all of them: outsiders. People searching for identity. People hiding secrets. People trying to survive systems that exploit or misunderstand them. People caught between worlds emotionally, socially, politically, or even literally in the case of some of my sci-fi stories. I…

I don’t think I fully realized how much growing up at Girard College shaped me until I became a writer. There was something strangely cinematic about the experience itself. A historic boarding school in Philadelphia filled with massive buildings, long hallways, traditions, complicated history, and kids all trying to figure out who they were while…