About the work

A closer look.

Free first step, no order needed: name the place and I'll send you one real thing the record shows about it, plus the one line I'd open the piece with. Yours either way; if it isn't enough, you owe nothing. If you want the whole piece: a real place you can't get back to. A town that's gone, a street that changed, a house that isn't yours anymore. I research it the way I research my own places: maps, satellite and street-level photographs, archives and public sources. Then I write roughly 600 to 900 words, in my own voice. The whole point is the seam. The piece separates what the record actually shows from the part no lens reaches, and I mark the second half as imagined instead of smuggling it in as fact. If a search comes up empty, you'll read that too. You receive: one finished document, one street-view or map image if one exists, and a plain line on what I could not find. Three days, one revision.