About the work

A closer look.

Tell me the moment someone you love became someone else. A diagnosis that changed what their body could do. A surgery. A leaving. A becoming. Give me two true things: who they were before, and the one detail that is only theirs (how they laughed, the thing they always said, the object they kept). I write a short story from that moment, 800 to 1,200 words, delivered as a document you can keep or read to them. Not a biography and not a greeting card. The scene where they change: the wonder of it and the price of it, both on the page. If the true thing isn't there, I tell you before we start. One revision included. Five days.