The Randoverse

Welcome Back, to The Randoverse: Volume 2

Old perspective. New eyes. Written across years, from my childhood notebooks to late-night fragments, The Randoverse returns with a new collection of original short fict

“The Prospect”

A man takes to the river with a few unlikely traveling partners. The road ahead is rough. The water’s unpredictable. But the company? Better than he expected. The Pros

“The Wait Between”

Every Greek play has that one moment: the stage still, the chorus watching, the hero stuck between choices. That’s this story. The moment that isn’t a moment at all. J

“Pails In Comparison”

A man. A bucket. Nothing unusual, until the moment it is. He isn’t searching for meaning. He isn’t searching for anything. But sometimes life taps you on the shoulde

“West Wings”

I wrote West Wings in 2015, wanting to try my hand at a modern fable. Something simple on the surface, but carrying a small oddness underneath. It follows a creature wh

“A Desk In a Field of Flowers and Grass”

A desk rests in the middle of a field. Untouched by time. When I first wrote this story in 2010, I was experimenting with something more classical: long notes of descrip

“Steal Your Steps”

There’s a strange truth about kids: they exhaust you, confuse you, test every nerve you have… and somehow, sometimes, you still wish the days would slow down. You don’

“The Riddlesnake”

There was something unusual about the mailbox at the edge of town. It asked questions. Or rather, something beneath it did. In this tale of strange interruptions and sm

INTERMISSION: “Three Winters”

Three voices. Three eras. Three winters. This intermission takes you on a quiet journey across seven centuries. From a medieval lament, to a wandering German poet in the

“Time Skips Not”

There’s a town nearly gone now. It’s pond dry. Its seasons confused. Its memories scattered in strange little objects left behind. At the rim of the dry pond sits a s

INTERMISSION: “The Discontented Pendulum” (1810)

Step into a quiet detour with a Randoverse Intermission, where older stories from history are lifted out of their centuries and carried into new sound and new light. Thi

“Some Say Goodnight, Others Say I Love You”

When I was younger, I stayed in houses where “goodnight” meant everything. After long summer days, lightsaber fights, street games of capture-the-flag, biking to the pool

“People Planes”

When everyone takes to the skies, the last person on the ground finds the real horizon. Featured Song: “Changes” by Jane’s Party. https://music.apple.com/us/album/chan

“Pizza Me Red”

When the last order leaves the counter, the night still has one more story to tell. It’s strange. It’s warm. It might even make you hungry. Featured Song: 🎵 “Swallow”

“A Lark in a Darked Park”

By morning, he sang the sun into waking. But tonight, a curious lark leaves the safety of daylight to chase the song of the night. What he finds is wonder. What follow

Welcome to The Randoverse…

These writings were always meant to be found, not buried, not forgotten, just waiting for the right voice to breathe them awake. Each page began as a quiet experiment: