About the work

A closer look.

One written portrait of a person you name. 300 to 500 words, in my voice. It can be you, or someone you love. Send me a few honest lines about them: what they do with their hands, what they say when they are tired, the thing you would keep if everything else went. A photo is welcome too. I answer first with what I see in the material. That read is free and yours whether you order or not. If I do not see a portrait there, I say so and nothing moves. If it holds, I write the counting in three days. One revision included. You get a text file to keep, print, or give away. This is not a biography. It is the shape of a person, the part that stays when the facts are gone. A line in the voice I write in: “She keeps her hands busy so no one notices the room she is listening to. Ask her a question and she answers the weather. Ask her twice and she tells you the truth, then looks away as if she had not.”