Writing Samples

Some of my best pieces of writing. A few short sketches and short stories, plus the first 10 pages of my current script projects. Please contact me if you wish to see more of them.

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My first screenplay.
In a near-future Chicago, teenage fangirl Haley Huang discovers her idol Duncan Q has been brutally murdered – except his digital persona remains, so no one knows of the crime except her. A pulse-pounding thrill ride chock full of mind uploads, shapeshifting cyborgs, and overbearing moms.

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The Hatching

When neurotic entomologist Silas Sawyer returns to his Rust Belt hometown for his father’s funeral, he discovers his father’s cause of death was more unnatural than most – and uncovers  a gruesome secret about the town. A killer insect creature feature with a social edge.

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Return on Investment

A funny skit I wrote for a production class about corporate evil as rendered in popular fiction – and in real life.

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Maximum Comfort Factor

A door-to-door mattress salesman finds himself trying to sell to a couple in the middle of a messy divorce.

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A Gathering of Karens

I wrote this over the summer of 2020, and it’s so, so of its moment, blending political tensions with COVID anxiety in a backdrop of a super-bougie book club.
Admittedly the middle part is not finished, but I think what is there is some of the funniest stuff I’ve ever written. Despite its embeddedness in mid-2020 zeitgeist-y stuff, I might still finish it, as a fun exercise in trying to rediscover a simpler time – wait, was it really a simpler time? Who am I kidding. It wasn’t.

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Another Orphan

I wrote this for a class on Moby-Dick, a sort of quasi-sequel inspired by a few throwaway lines in the book that tell the reader a startling amount about Ishmael’s post-novel mental state.

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