I Am Enough

Content Warnings: Self-Harm and Suicidality. It’s 12 A.M. I’m lying in bed frantically texting my friends because I’m afraid I’ve overshared with a distant friend. I’m playing Smith & Thell’s “Alice” on a loop to soothe me, only half-hearing its echoing strains. And then somewhere in there, somehow, something occurs to me. Something that I […]

ACC 20/20: August

Welcome to the return of the Electric/Eccentric blog! This month is starting out small with the return of the Starlight creative writing exercise, and the Anna, Farmer chapterbook. Look for more programming next month! Thursday, August 6th- “Starlight #14: Littleville” (Starlight) Thursday, August 20th- “Chapter IX” (Anna, Farmer) Monday, August 31st- “ACC 20/20: September” (ACC […]

The Valley Chronicles: A Retrospective

Today, excluding a few logistical issues with distribution, I celebrate the completion of my first series of novels: The Valley Chronicles, an epic trilogy about family, imagination, and sacrifice. I wrote the short stories that would form the basis for The Valley Chronicles a decade ago, and I began writing this trilogy a mere four […]

Memoir: Rugby & Me

Being very bad at something is a peculiar feeling; and I am very bad at rugby indeed. The Summer before my first semester at Bates, my mother was called by a current Bates parent and welcomed to the Bobcat family. Somewhere in the conversation, the parent disclosed that her son was on the rugby team, […]

A Few Updates!

As an update, the Electric/Eccentric blog is going to go on hiatus while I focus on: Finally releasing The Valley Chronicles: Tempest Starting on The Outsiders Club Filming Cedric Clarke & the Unsettling Dark and Developing several more top secret projects! Keep an eye on this blog, along with the ACC Pub Ink Facebook page […]

Starlight #13: Bloodbound

Starlight is a series I started writing for fun in 2016, written in the “style” of a comic book. As such, this is not my best writing, but it’s something I had fun doing. Nala’s car pulls up to another mansion, huge, well-decorated. As Cad, Hunter, and Nala get out of the car, Castor approaches from his home. Cas: Nala. Nala: Cassie. Castor and Nala embrace. She steps back […]

ACC 20/20: February

Monday, February 3rd – “TBD” (Poem) Thursday, February 6th- Starlight #13: Bloodbound (Starlight) Monday, February 10th- “Production Begins” (Behind the Camera: Cedric Clarke) Monday, February 17th- “TBD” (Poem) Thursday, February 20th- “Chapter X” (Anna, Farmer) Monday, February 24th- “The Toys That Made Me, Part Two” (Memoir) Saturday, February 29th- “ACC 20/20: March” (ACC 20/20 Inventory)

Poem: Shadow

a shadow sits upon usit shades the past in scarlet tonesit enrages the things that once were calmand calls for an end to hope. love is gone away nowit hides beneath a veneer of regretit shatters beneath the weight of the endand wishes for better days, now long gone. Together, we seek the future.Do not […]

Behind the Camera: Development

Behind the Camera is an exclusive behind the scenes look at the production of Cedric Clarke and the Unsettling Dark, a scifi webseries coming to YouTube in 2020. Development began in mid-2019, around the time when two Season 2 began to fizzle out. I approached Gus Scanlon about showrunning a series with me during Short […]

Starlight #12: E.T.

Starlight is a series I started writing for fun in 2016, written in the “style” of a comic book. As such, this is not my best writing, but it’s something I had fun doing. We open in Parker’s home. Parker is playing video games, on call with Hunter, at his own house. Parker: Throw up some cover… Hunter: I’m working on it, working on… There’s a sad beep. Parker: […]