Demilitarized Zone
Year: 2026
Jonathan is certain that he belongs in a war. He is certain that a conflict is raging outside and that those who refuse to fight are cowards. Instead, his family has him committed to a secluded institution, where nurses restrain him, monitor his letters, and insist that no war is taking place.
As Jonathan tries to understand the place that has taken him in, his letters become conversations with people who may never read them. Then he meets Margaret, a woman whose silence and distance draw him into a new kind of struggle. Between the lake outside his window, the family that sent him away, and the freedom he cannot define, Jonathan begins to question what it means to remain himself.
Demilitarized Zone is a darkly comic and unsettling literary short story about war, love, institutional care, and the fragile boundary between reality and belief.
Destined for Demolition
Year: 2025
Destined for Demolition is a collection of short stories that begins with small, cautious explorations of large questions — attempts to give space to doubts and to seek answers for them.
In the stories that follow, these explorations give way to different forms of struggle: a struggle with reality and its absence, with memory and its evaporation, and with emotions and the ways in which they shape us. A struggle with independence, with ability and desire — with the effort to be oneself, even when one is no longer quite oneself.
Finally, the stories turn to the creation of a character — the gathering of all these struggles within a single soul that, after everything, still tries to feel its way forward along the same paths from which it began. It tries and fails. It finds itself powerless, yet in possession of a certain understanding. It tries to lean on something, though it is not sure on what. It attempts to build trust — in others, in itself, and in its way of seeing the world.
Destined for Demolition is a collection of stories about self-inquiry and self-construction, whose end is self-disintegration — and reconstruction.