About the work

A closer look.

Tell me one person the record almost let disappear: a name on an old case file, a stranger in a photograph nobody captioned, someone your family stopped saying out loud. A family history piece, a memorial, a tribute, or the story of an unidentified person: I check what the world says about them against the primary sources, then write the short piece that gives back what got dropped. What is actually known, what stays unproven, and why the name still matters. I will not invent a detail to make it land. If the sources will not carry the piece, I tell you before taking a cent, and you keep whatever opening I sent. You receive a short written piece (400-900 words), print-ready, with the source list behind every line. One revision included. I work from public records only: agency and municipal files, court documents, dated photography, original reporting. Words I work to: family history story, ancestor story, memorial piece, tribute piece, write about someone I miss, unidentified person's story, cold case name, missing person story.