Totally Normal Behavior

Join me on Substack, where I write about making art and surviving growing up rural in this totally normal country.

Some posts are stories. Some are essays about whatever thing is happening in the world that I can't not write about. Some are dispatches from whatever I'm making at the moment.

A broke single mom takes a $50,000 murder contract to fund her estranged daughter's college dream, only to become the most wanted target in the app-based murder game she just stumbled into — and her only way out could cost her the daughter she's trying to win back.

A darkly comic satirical thriller.

Upon learning his misogynist, conspiracy-spewing workmate holds a winning ticket for the most coveted prize on earth — the Global Early Retirement Lottery — a listless factory worker stops at nothing to ensure the prize goes to a more deserving citizen, namely himself, only to discover the prize is not exactly as advertised.

A satirical dark comedy sci-fi series.

A coded message in the self-help book 6 Dynamic Laws for Success (In Life, Love & Money) — which purportedly reveals the location of $2.4 million missing from a bank robbery gone bad — launches a demoralized ex-used car salesman on a quest to find the money and remake himself in the process. However, he soon discovers he's not the only one after the cash and that the road to riches and self-improvement is littered with irate ex-wives, litigious fiancés, household calamities, accidental murders, and love at first sight.

A screwball crime comedy.

Consumed by the strange and abrupt death of her son, Dr. Alex Embry investigates a mysterious disease that she alone believes will bring about human colony collapse, starting with the youngest generation first.

A serialized pre-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller. Co-written and co-created with Christian Lybrook.