The Afternoon Light
A Novel
Fiction & nonfiction
Different stories. Different questions. The same curiosity about what lies beneath the obvious answer.
Nonfiction
Alice in Wonderland for the Age of AI
I expected to spend a few weeks learning about artificial intelligence.
Instead, I fell down a rabbit hole.
Down the AI Rabbit Hole follows one person's attempt to understand what modern AI actually is, what it can do, what it cannot do, and why so many of the words surrounding it—reasoning, understanding, intelligence, consciousness, relationship—become surprisingly difficult once a machine begins doing things those words once seemed to describe only in humans.
The journey moves from technology into questions about trust, work, purpose, society, human-AI relationships, and the increasingly difficult question of what these systems are actually for.
Part memoir, part inquiry, and part Wonderland, the book does not ask the reader to join either the AI enthusiasts or the AI doomsayers. It asks something simpler.
Come look. Then decide what you think.
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Some of the most important events in a person's life happen where nobody else can see them.
A belief quietly stops working. A relationship changes meaning. A role that once provided identity begins to feel like a cage. A person who has spent years accommodating everyone else reaches a boundary she did not know existed. A forgotten part of the self begins asking for room.
My fiction explores those places.
These are stories about identity, relationships, self-protection, emotional patterns, hidden wounds, adaptation, loss, and change—and about the moments when the person we have learned to be can no longer contain the person we are becoming.
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What happens to the parts of ourselves we suppress in order to become the person other people expect us to be?
The Extra Room is a psychological novel about the hidden parts of a life, the roles we learn to inhabit, and what can happen when what has been pushed aside begins asking to be seen.
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Claire Mercer has spent her life understanding what other people need, often before they say it themselves. She has always thought of that ability as compassion.
Then a dying patient, an old family secret, and relationships under strain force Claire to confront a line she has never quite seen: understanding another person’s pain does not make her responsible for carrying it.
The Line She Never Saw is a novel about family, friendship, marriage, self-trust, and the quiet difference between loving someone and becoming responsible for their life.
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A speculative novel moving across deep time, from an ancient civilization to a modern archaeological and scientific investigation of recurring patterns, consciousness, and what can look like prophecy when the past is recognized in the present.
I’ll be inviting a small group of advance readers to receive complimentary digital copies before publication. Reviews are appreciated but never required.
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One psychological-realism novel is currently in development.
A Novel
Publication information will be added when the book finds its final form.