When I was younger, I wanted to make an audio drama based around my fictional company, Leviathan Industries, and their new working relationship with the CIA, going into what would become MKUltra. For the intro of the first episode, I made a speech done by the deuteragonist/antagonist (Epsilon) about the military-industrial complex and how he justified the permanent state of war—which directly benefited Leviathan Industries—as being in the larger interest of society.

Excerpts that I enjoyed writing from Chapter One of my Detective Novel.

Transformation of a Minimalist Paragraph to a Maximalist version

The first assignment we had to do for the Iowa Young Writers’ Workshop was a description (up to 250 words) detailing the examination of a creature—real or imaginary—from the perspective of a scientist studying the species.