Storyteller | Teacher | Activist
Novels
Confesiones de Invierno
Begun in June of 2015, continued in December of 2017.
It’s the story of a man, who may make more sense than the world around us today, or maybe less. A man who had a reason to live and, accompanied by his guitar and letters he writes to one he loves, sets off to try do good again.
And it’s the story of a woman, fresh off of heartbreak and loss of memory and certainty of self, who decides to take control of at least something. It becomes an attempt to write an article on the man found dead in the snow, clutching a guitar and smiling. And what got him there, and what killed him.
It’s my most autobiographical thing yet, and I felt vulnerable with every page written. I’m happy to begin revising it, because I’m finally proud of me, and beginning to let me be proud of myself.
April March
In progress
"Even more heterodox is the "regressive, ramified novel" titled April March, whose third (and only) part is dated 1936. In judging this novel, no one would fail to discover that it is a game; it is only fair to remember that the author never considered it anything else.
"I lay claim in this novel," I have heard him say, "to the essential features of all games: symmetry, arbitrary rules, tedium." Even the title of the book is a feeble pun: it does not mean the march of April, but literally March-April. Someone has perceived an echo of Donne's doctrines; Quain's prologue prefers to evoke the inverse world of Bradley in which death precedes birth, the scar the wound, and the wound the blow."
- Jorge Luis Borges, An Examination of the Works of Herbert Quain
Catalysis
First draft finished Jan. 30 2016, editing in progress
"2029. Nanobots heal people, brain implants interface with biological neurons to augment reality, and the first trials to upload a brain are being developed. When William Taylor, the leading financier of these technologies and a ruthless yet brilliant man, is murdered by unenhanced foreman Ed Jones, the defense and prosecutor struggle with the trial and the true motivations of the murder, their own relationships as former friends and now opponents, as well as how far they’ll go to stand up for what they believe in and what it may cost them. Alongside the trial is A.D.A, the first android to pass the Turing Test, developed in complete secrecy and being allowed to learn from the world as they wish; and an unenhanced art genius investigating a mysterious work of art whose anonymous creator may hold the clues to deciphering this turbulent future. A Tale of Two Cities meets Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep in a story challenging the notions of progress and humanity, asking how much we know and what we must consider before the future catches up with us."
The Spark
June 4th, 2012
"Let's assume that humanity has this force within it called The Spark. Let's say that when people write fiction, The Spark infuses itself with the story and creates a whole new universe that revolves around the story. Think of what this means: are we simply characters from a story? Where does evil come from? Do we have free will? And what would happen if The Spark began to die out? As Mico enters a world populated with friends, enemies, and impossible lands, he must struggle with holding the fate of all universes that were, are, and will be, in his hands."
Picture Books
SuperRare
Two problems with children and rare diseases: the first is talking to them about it, and the second is showing them it is doable to live with one. Using the metaphor of the superhero as a rare disease patient, I've tried to do my part.
La Vida es Juego
There may be no medium that is more transgressive in teaching the young. So this was my attempt to teach the life of Jaime Garzón
Comics
Resist!
A comics-as-essay on the way non-violence and ingenuity have wrought justice.
Pablo and I
Another of my many variations on Borges; concept, this one a William blake-style take on a conversation between myself and myself , at he start and end of my semester in Oxford.
Confesiones de Invierno
Because why not make a comic of the plot of the song that you've bastardized for the novel, based off of the song, that you're writing?
La Historia de Jaime
Another Blake-like take on a story, told with the language of a mythical tale
The Titan Came to Fall
Inspired by Neil Gaiman's reinvention in "Nicholas Was..." and Gustave Doré's illustration of Lucifer, this attempts to tell the mythopoetic story of a demon that is anything but, and the fall engineered by a god that is anything but just.