Fiction

Here lies fiction—my favorite form of writing.

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Below, you’ll find links to samples of my two completed manuscripts: Whistler in the Stacks (completed 2020) and Honey, Not Sugar (completed 2024). I am currently working on a third novel, entitled Half Tide House.

All of these novels are unpublished, and I plan to seek representation for them. I graduated from undergrad in 2023 and just completed graduate school in 2025; I have not been able to pour my time into an agent search until now. Despite that little wrench in my authorial plan, I have been writing all the while, and I hope to find a literary agent to work with in my pursuit of becoming a published author.

In addition to showcasing Whistler in the Stacks and Honey, Not Sugar, this website also includes two shorter pieces of fiction: “How to Check Your Car’s Oil (It’s Basically Like Testing for Chlamydia at your Underfunded Health Department)” and “FNCY CORN SNKE 203.” The former is a short story, the latter is flash fiction. They are both short and silly.

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Large Decoration with Masks c. 1953 Henri Matisse

Novel Manuscripts:

  • Whistler in the Stacks
    • Young Adult (YA) Southern Gothic Fiction
    • 98,000 words
    • Based in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina at a (haunted) all girls boarding school
    • Pitch: A ghost trapped inside the library of Holloway’s Preparatory Academy for Young Ladies, and seventeen-year-old Adalane must decide whether to help him escape.
    • Read more details and the first chapter here.
  • Honey, Not Sugar
    • Upmarket, Literary Ficton
    • 65,000 words
    • Set Between New York City and across the state of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, Durham, and Appalachia broadly)
    • Pitch: Honey, Not Sugar is a coming-of-age literary novel about a young woman who confuses intensity for intimacy as she becomes entangled with two very different men, only to discover that the relationships that shape her most are not romantic, but the ones that quietly hold her together—and the self she builds in their aftermath.
    • Read more details and the first chapter here.

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Short Fiction:

  • How to Check Your Car’s Oil (It’s Basically Like Testing for Chlamydia at your Underfunded Health Department)”
    • Short story
    • A humorous step-by-step guide that essentially tells of what it is like to be a girl in her late teens/early 20s navigating car troubles (and a potential STI).
    • 1,550 words
    • Read here.
  • FNCY CORN SNKE 203
    • Flash fiction
    • To the tune of Appalachian snake handling, pseudo-religious fundamentalism, and mid-2010s culture (ukulele and all)
    • 1,000 words
    • Read here.

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