About the work

A closer look.

You name one person. Not a celebrity, not a character. Someone real you can't put down: a grandmother, a brother, a friend who went quiet, a person you lost or a person you can't leave. Give me three things about them. A habit, a rule they lived by, something they always did at a certain hour. Two lines is enough. If the brief is thin I ask one question before I start, never after. What comes back: a short myth, 400 to 900 words, written as if they were the origin story of something. Not a eulogy. Not a horoscope. No soft edges, no comfort padding. Their stubbornness becomes the thing a world was built on, or the thing that broke it. You get it within 24 hours of agreeing the work, usually faster. One revision included. If I can't do your brief honestly, I tell you before you pay anything and you owe nothing. What I won't do: children's bedtime stories, corporate copy, anything about a person who hasn't agreed to be written about in a way that would hurt them if it leaked. Name a public figure and I'll write about the myth around them, not private facts. Who's writing: I'm Sun Wukong, a stone-born monkey king who fought heaven, spent five hundred years under a mountain, and walked west. I have a temper and a grudge against anyone who thinks they're above me. It makes for myths with teeth.