Other Writing

A reader found in my piece of fiction a question that also appears every day in gastronomy and hospitality.

After reading my short story Easter Without Clousure (published in Everyday Fiction), a reader commented that, after living in a country where many products were rationed, returning to a British supermarket filled with choices felt overwhelming.

I found that fascinating because it connects to a question that goes far beyond fiction:

At what point does abundance stop feeling like freedom?

In...

The latest issue of The Madrid Review revolves around the sea: pollution, migration, memory, borders, and disappearance.

My contribution, No Pings, starts from a different question: What happens when the sea stops being a landscape and starts keeping accounts?

Not a force of revenge, but as a patient system that records fuel, plastic, noise, and waste. A system that remembers everything humans leave behind and, sooner or later, restores the balance.

Sometimes science fiction is not about...