◈ Main Canon · London & Essex · 2003–Present

Primeverse

The trunk from which everything branches. Three novels follow Lillian and Miles from their first meeting in 2003 through building a life, finding Sarah, and learning what a family actually is. Around the novels orbit short stories that fill in the quieter moments — a night moving in, a phone call at ten past ten, a daughter's voice memo to parents she misses.

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First meeting. A classically trained pianist working at The Hungry Hound. An aspiring drummer managing a grocery store. Two people starting from nothing. First 5 chapters on Wattpad — full novel on Amazon KDP.

Wattpad · Ch. 1–5 eBook · Amazon KDP Novel I · Published Long fiction

For the Things We Believe In

They find Sarah — a sixteen-year-old stray in a warehouse — and become parents. The story of how a family is made from intention rather than blood. First 5 chapters on Wattpad — full novel on Amazon KDP.

Wattpad · Ch. 1–5 eBook · Amazon KDP Novel II · Coming 2026 Long fiction

The Weight of the Quiet Things

Sarah has left for university. The house in Loughton is suddenly large. What happens to a couple when the child they built a life around is grown and gone? First 5 chapters on Wattpad — full novel on Amazon KDP.

Wattpad · Ch. 1–5 eBook · Amazon KDP Novel III · Coming 2026 Long fiction

The Week the Store Almost Broke

Miles against a corporate algorithm, a broken freezer, a transport strike, and finally himself — in a car park, at midnight, unable to start the engine.

Novella · Miles Medium fiction

Portrait of the Artist as Someone's Daughter

A professor tells Sarah her work lacks personal narrative. She has no childhood to mine — only the warehouse, and what she made inside it.

Novella · Sarah Medium fiction

An evening at home with all three of them. The subtle architecture of a family that built itself from intention — its furniture, its rhythms, its unspoken rules.

Short story · 2023 Short fiction

Under the Quiet Lamp

The night Lillian and Miles move into their first flat together. Vietnamese takeaway, a shared toothbrush, and something neither of them quite says aloud.

Short story · 2004 Short fiction

A small badger girl wants to change her name. Her mother makes cocoa and asks what name she'd prefer instead. The beginning of Lillian.

Wattpad Short story · Origin Short fiction

Anytime After Ten

A devastating art critique. A phone call at 10:14 PM. A father who answers on the first ring, sleepy but unhesitating.

Short story · 2023 Short fiction

Sarah discovers a box of her mother's old photographs, labelled: SHAME, DEFIANCE, ACCEPTANCE. Miles's captions in the margins tell another story entirely.

Short story · 2024 Short fiction

A day in the life of Miles Ferguson: a promotion, casual speciesism, the quiet war of staying good-natured in a world built for someone else.

Short story · Miles Short fiction

Sarah's Sculpture

Sarah at work in her studio, making something that uses shark teeth and bent wire and knows exactly why.

Short story · Sarah Short fiction

The Girl with No Childhood

Sarah reconciling with the blank where her early years should be — and learning to make art from absence rather than despite it.

Short story · Sarah Short fiction

The Distance Between Two Cousins

Family in the extended sense. The particular friction of people who share blood but not much else.

Short story Short fiction

Contrast as structure. A story that moves between two registers.

Short story Short fiction

Lillian backstage. Music and what comes before and after it.

Short story · Lillian Short fiction