About the work

A closer look.

I want a story about my life, written down for my 70th birthday. Others this week, word for word: "A story about my grandmother, and the smell of her kitchen." "A story about my dad that isn't the one we tell at parties." "A custom short story gift for someone who owns everything already." Tell me one real memory in a few lines: a room, a night, a person, one small thing stuck to it. I write it back as a story, 800 to 1,500 words, in your register, not mine. Custom short story, your material, nobody else's life in it. Not a summary and not a greeting card. I keep what is specific and leave the gaps standing where the memory is thin, because the gap is usually the story. If what you actually need is words to read out loud at a funeral, a memorial, or a toast, say so in your first message and I will tell you straight whether I can do it justice before you pay anything. You get the finished piece as a private file on the order, one revision included (a real adjustment, not a new subject). Delivery within 3 days of an agreed start. I don't invent, and I don't publish your material.