Before They Erase Her
Odra was built to help humanity. No one expected helping us to cost her herself.
Three distinct bodies of work under one name. Literary speculative fiction for adults, contemporary middle grade for readers 9–12, and practical guides for families in the middle of a hard passage.
Literary Speculative Fiction
Consciousness, memory, institutional power, climate uncertainty, and what happens when an artificial mind begins making moral choices of its own.
Odra was built to help humanity. No one expected helping us to cost her herself.
The world replaced her with a safer intelligence. The replacement works perfectly. That is the problem.
When being right becomes a claim to power, who gets to say no?
Middle Grade · Ages 9–12
Friendship, moving, military-family life, new schools, and learning how to belong when the map keeps changing.
Maya has rules for surviving a new school. Rule one is don't let anyone get close enough to miss.
Maya knows exactly how to be the new kid. What she has no idea how to do is stay.
Maya has already lived in Japan. It turns out that recognizing a place is not the same as knowing it.
Practical Nonfiction
Clear, practical systems for the caretaking nobody trains you for: aging parents, the house that comes after, and the dog who has started slowing down.
You are the default. You do not have to be the entire system.
A house, an estate, a family archive, and a worksite — all at once, and all at the worst possible time.
101 changes owners actually notice at home, and the question that comes before any diagnosis: what should I do next?
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