Short prose from the desk: on voice, on craft, on the book as it came together.
No. 05
Writing grief without naming it
On the rule that the narrator isn't allowed to name the feeling, and what a kettle can do that a sentence can't.
April 2026
No. 04
Writing a narrator who doesn't know he's the main character
On point of view, attention, and the gap between what Jake sees and what the reader does.
March 2026
No. 03
A thousand years of impossibility
On the puzzle at the bottom of the book, and the decision not to solve it on the page.
February 2026
No. 02
Kansas on another world: why Arne Lindh had to be a farmer
On the side character who quietly dismantled the sentence Jake has been using on himself since he was fourteen.
January 2026
No. 01
The wrench, the window, and Earth going away
On why the book starts already in motion, with a man running down a corridor and a workshop full of tools.
December 2025