On three occasions over the course of three decades, aspiring actress Chùsi Chenvisits a zoo under a strange series of circumstances, through which she navigatesthe animal nature of power, privilege, and predation. (Originally published in THE MASTERS REVIEW, 18 March 2019.)

In a sleepy German village in the late 18th Century, a failed French nurse encounters a beautiful corpse that refuses to decompose at her grisly place of work––a house of the dead. (Based on short story originally published in BLACK STATIC, Issue #68, Mar/Apr 2019.)

In this cryptocurrency-centric revenge epic, a brilliant but disgraced programmer turns the tables on her former mentor, the egomaniacal billionaire who stole her code and destroyed her career. As they face off, she unleashes a tech-heavy, globe-trotting heist modeled after the 10 plagues of Egypt. The grit and glamor of OCEAN’S ELEVEN with a splash of WOLF OF WALL STREET. (Grand Prize Winner of the 2021 Page Awards)

In a perilous reversal of image and anonymity, a Japanese-American model enters Witness Protection after exposing a sex trafficking ring, but her idyllic new life––and nascent romance with an erudite barmaid––are threatened by a brutal ex-flame and her own mortal obsession with the public eye.