Reading at Stardust Video & Coffee

Please come to my reading! I’ll be the featured reader that night at Stardust. Come listen! Bring a friend!

I’ll be reading from my upcoming novella Just Reach Out Your Hand.

Just Reach Out Your Hand:

Joy’s childhood in the Cathedral in the Woods Church cult ended when her mother murdered their power-hungry leader then fled the authorities on a cross-country chase. Their years on the run blurred together, but when Joy’s mother was arrested, Joy kept going. Now, at the age of 28, Joy is living in her car in Brooklyn. The trauma of her early life has muddled her memory. She thinks putting together the pieces of the past will help her move on, but recovering from the repression and violence of her dislocated youth isn’t as easy as she believes.

This novella is based on “The Lost Gospel,” a short story long-listed for the Disquiet Prize in 2019.