WHAT REMAINS

A Nonfiction Series Based on True Stories

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HEADLINES REPORT WHAT HAPPENED.

But some events are too strange—or too unresolved—for them to carry the weight.

I’m more interested in what remains.

This is a series of literary nonfiction stories; snapshots drawn from real events. Not to retell them point by point, but to pause in their aftershocks—listen—and report what I hear.

No embellishment. No fiction. Only what lingers in the quiet—or disquiet—between fact and the meaning we give it.

I’m a storyteller by vocation. Over the years, I’ve seen the power of story not just to entertain, but to reveal what lies beneath the surface. Each vignette begins in fact, reconstructed through research, records, and reporting. I write in the first person—not because I was there, but so the reader can be.

Not to shock. Not to sensationalize. But to trace the emotional shape of what happened: what unsettles, what endures when the noise fades… what remains.

Two quotes I return to often:

“When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want a meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.” —Robert McKee

“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.” —Rudyard Kipling

This is how I try to write them—not in full, not final—only stories I’ve found, shaped by moments and questions that will not loosen their hold.

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