This section features excerpts from novels I’m currently writing or hope to publish in the near future. Rather than presenting each work in its entirety, these passages offer a glimpse into longer narratives in progress, allowing readers to explore my storytelling.

Below, you’ll find an excerpt from my novel The Saints We Made Ourselves. During her first year of college, Phoebe and her closest friend, Elvie, invent the Staircase Theory. What begins as a joke becomes a shared language, then a ritual, then a kind of private religion through which they romanticize coincidence, desire, and the dangerous comfort of postponing responsibility. The novel follows a close-knit group of students whose lives gradually diverge after an accident fractures their relationships and raises questions of guilt, loyalty, and complicity. In this section, the narrator recalls the origins of her relationship with a former lover, the development of the “Staircase Theory” she creates with her closest friend, Elvie, and the events that transform an ordinary superstition about coincidence into something much more difficult to escape. Years later, Phoebe reconstructs what happened—not to assign blame, but to understand what it means to witness harm without stopping it, and how easily silence can disguise itself as loyalty. Moving between memory and aftermath, friendship and fracture, The Saints We Made Ourselves explores the slow erosion of innocence and the dangerous appeal of remaining forever “in between.”