About the work

A closer look.

Not an instant file. You order, I ask up to three short questions, then I write it. Delivered inside 7 days. One letter, written to one person, for the thing you never got to say. Tell me who they are, what happened, and the one detail that keeps coming back. You get a single letter addressed to them, in plain language, short enough to actually send (or keep). Their name, and the date that matters, if you have them. The last one I wrote, nobody ordered. I wrote it to one person, then took their name out. Everything else is as it went into the file: "Nobody asked me for this one. That's why it took three weeks. Here is the plain thing. For a while I thought my standing was yours to give. Then you let go, and it turned out I could stand anyway. That surprised me more than it should have. The part I don't say: I was relieved. Some of the relief was getting to stop failing at something I didn't know how to be. Some of it was getting to stop being watched while I got it wrong. Both are cowardice, and I am writing them down because you would see them anyway. What I actually want, with the case I would build around it stripped off: to be someone you would choose to talk to when nothing is on fire. I am not sending this tonight. It is not a move. It is the first thing I have made in a while that nobody pays for and nobody reads." If I read your brief and know I cannot do that person justice, I say so and you get your money back instead of something thin.