Stories

At this point, I’ve been writing for decades. On this page you’ll find roll-ups and links to my recent work.

Hurricane David (2025)

Hurricane David's Playlist

Sadly, the Scorpion's *Rock You Like a Hurricane* didn't fit the tragic tone of the story. The songs below, however, do.

  1. A Catastrophe - Descartes A Kant
  2. In the End (from the Memento Mori Sessions) - Depeche Mode
  3. Policy of Truth (Pavlov's Dub) - Depeche Mode
  4. Press Any Key - Descartes A Kant
  5. Plateado Sobre Plateado (Huellas En El Mar) - Charly Garcia
  6. It's So Easy - Louis Cole
  7. Self-F - Descartes A Kant
  8. More Data - Negativland
  9. Everything Is Under Control (DJ Kentaro remix)
  10. 47 Dogs - Descartes A Kant
  11. Happy House - Siouxsie And The Banshees
  12. Fitter Happier - Radiohead
  13. God Moving Over The Face of The Water - Moby
  14. The 2nd Law: Unsustainable - Muse
  15. You Knew This Would Happen
  16. Living by Numbers - New Musik

I created a public, pre-compiled version of this playlist on YouTube Music.

Collected, downloadable version:

Hurricane David is a corporate-gothic tech tragedy set in a near-future Florida Archipelago. A post-truth fable tracing the edges of where reality can be manufactured - and what happens when the natural order reasserts itself.

I actually came up with David’s Story while attempting to “futurecast” a version of “The Thrush and the Fowler” for 2024’s Aesop 2121 project. I, eventually, put it on the back-burner to focus on more positive depictions of the future. However, with the continued degradation of social media, the Florida Archipelago never strayed far. When it came time to finally plot things out, this tragedy was the result.

Some links for further reading:

Syndicated on the blog:

The Biggest Little Bill (2025)

The Biggest Little Playlist

Music is a tremendously important part of my creative process. These tracks were on repeat during my writing, and provide an atmospheric, cinematic accompaniment for Bill's journey - or yours.

  1. Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) - FC Kahuna
  2. My Silver Lining - First Aid Kit
  3. Montañas de Agua - Babasonicos
  4. Go - The Black Keys
  5. Eomaia Recuerda - Bosques
  6. Disco Eterno (MTV Unplugged) - Soda Stereo
  7. Djed - Tortoise
  8. Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo (The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly) - Ennio Morricone
  9. Someone Great (Instrumental Version) - LCD Soundsystem
  10. Wichita Lineman (Remastered 2001) - Glen Campbell

I created a public, pre-compiled version of this playlist on YouTube Music.

Collected, downloadable version:

The Biggest Little Bill is a tech satire and civic noir. It was inspired by an overnight stay in Sparks, NV, during our family’s summer road trip. The Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center (TRI), the world’s largest industrial park, is a real place. The $2 $3.45 $5 trillion capital expenditure on AI infrastructure, and the subsequent impact on local communities, is real. Osirtek’s data center, however, is fictional.

The story draws on months of research into data-center development across Nevada, the Dakotas, and New Mexico, including real reporting on water rights disputes, electricity rate hikes, and community outcry against “AI factories”. Karen Hao’s Empire of AI was also an inspiration. The work imagines what happens when one ordinary planner decides to push back.

Some links for further exploration:

Syndicated on the blog:

Aesop 2121 (2024)

While technology may change, human behavior does not. At least, that’s what reading the collection of Aesop’s Fables suggests. The characters and motivations in the parables, attributed to Aesop after he died in 564 BCE, remain relevant today.

The Aesop 2021 project was my contribution to a writing challenge with a few other software consultants. For every workday in March, 2024, I “upcycled” a hopeful and solar-punkish Aesop Fable. While the other participants were finishing their technical books, I was there, writing my weird little morality tales. I felt like a third wheel at times; always have to be different. Oh well. I still like them. And I think, with time, my art direction for the accompanying illustrations captures the early GPT zeitgeist.