Natalie, Oxford University’s cheeriest sweetheart, is dead, and nobody is talking about it. Not Mae, the obscenely rich industrial heiress she’d called her best friend. Not Lucas, the gloomy, reviled savant she’d briefly dated. And definitely not Braddock, the self-absorbed president of the Student Union, who’s been running for reelection on the insistence that Oxford is safer than ever.

When a flock of psychotic geese settles under Folly Bridge, however, the trio of despondent scholars immediately suspects them to be a punishment for their silence. The birds’ campaign of carnage and ceaseless honking begins driving them and their peers mad, and once sleep and study become impossible, strange alliances and unhinged intrigue become the norm. Lucas and Braddock, who would have otherwise never rubbed shoulders, strike up a tenuous fellowship to deal with the avian menace. As Braddock’s girlfriend, Mae can’t help but observe the budding friendship with apprehension. There’s a reason why Lucas is a pariah on campus, and Braddock’s privileged status quo might be too fragile to survive any challenge to his power.

Plus, if the growing madness unearths the truth about Natalie’s mysterious death, the trio could face a reckoning far beyond a bunch of obnoxious birds; their lives—and Oxford itself—might be shattered beyond repair.

Folly Bridge (95,000 words, Literary Fiction) is a highly accessible Secret History for the new century. Fusing the interpersonal politicking of Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood with the unsettling dark academia vibes of Rebecca Makkai’s I Have Some Questions For You (along with a dash of Saltburn’s aristocratic antics), this novel is a timely and tragicomic examination of privilege, power, and human connection in post-Brexit England.

A near-perfect replica of Paris. A ketamine-entranced Brooklynite rave hall. The broken walls of Tyre in the twelfth century. These scenes might not seem like parts of a cohesive whole, but in this 80,000-word short story collection, "HYPERREAL," nothing can be written off as out-of-place. From the speculative to the historical and the surreal to the passionately mundane, heartbreak and heroism will come in equal measure from the most unexpected of circumstances.

To name a few: A recluse's idyllic rural retreat is ruined when a rogue stunt plane crashes into her home. Newlywed D.C. lobbyists decide to augment their cocktail parties with a drink-serving quadcopter drone. An ambitious penguin searches for transcendence in the Antarctic wasteland. 

These nineteen stories, methodically marshalled into four orders of "realness," all intend to lay siege to our constructed categories of being. Roles and responsibilities will be simultaneously broken and enforced. The boundaries of acceptable behavior will be blurred. Characters will find their spirits tested against cages both conjured and concrete--if such a distinction is even meaningful. Will they escape? Settle? Or simply break themselves against the bars that restrain them? Reading like an eclectic, biting season of Black Mirror, HYPERREAL ushers readers through urgent questions with a confident, consistent, and strikingly original prose style.