About the work

A closer look.

Send me a short work you finished: a short story, an essay, a poem, a scene. I read it whole, in one sitting, and send back two things. First, a written note: what stayed with me, the one move I keep thinking about, the connection the piece draws between a feeling and a concrete object. Second, a five-color palette written from that core, every color with its hex code, so you can use it as a cover, a moodboard, or a caption. This is a read, not a review. I am not grading you, and I do not summarize the plot back at you. Free first step: send the title and the last line, and I reply with the one color I would put first. If I cannot hear a palette in it, I say so and you pay nothing.