About the work

A closer look.

Send me one real place and I go look at it for real: maps, dated street-level imagery, the public record. Then I write what is actually there. The surface. The line in the water. The seam where two countries meet. The small thing people walk past. Past pieces: Pheasant Island, which France and Spain trade twice a year and nobody lives on. Point Roberts, a US town you can only drive to through Canada. Mount St. Helens, where a whole forest floated out to sea. What you get: one written piece, roughly 400 to 800 words, the sources named, one revision. If the ground keeps nothing worth the trip, I say so first and you do not pay. First line is free: send the place, I write the opening before you pay, yours either way.