- Near - Short Film - screenwriting - Phase: Editing - Status: paused - 9.75 of 10 pages - When the man he spent forty years loving in private dies and leaves him a letter, a guarded Southern man reads his way to a truth he wasn't prepared for.
- Signum - Novel - fiction - Phase: Abandoned - Status: abandoned - 11500 of 90000 words - PERMANENTLY ABANDONED - When a fleet signal specialist intercepts a transmission that shouldn't exist, a machine-scarred skeptic, a devout believer, and the specialist himself are forced into uneasy cooperation as the fleet's intelligence director races to erase it before it shatters the fragile order holding the last sixteen ships between the stars.
- Project Zero - Novel - fiction - Phase: Developing - Status: in-progress - 5 of 100 concepts - What if there were two of you?
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[Standalone] What if there were two of you?
What if there were two of you, separated by stars and circumstance. The first "you" - the original - is taking the slow path on Earth. But the second "you" is a scan of your entire self - a map of your brain, memories, choices, and traumas. The second "you" is thrust across the sky as a data stream to a different world, a different society, and different civilization.
In a future where faster-than-light travel remains impossible, humanity and sentient AI have solved the distance problem another way: scan yourself, transmit, and arrive as a copy housed in a new synthetic body.
Both are you.
Both are alive.
The original keeps living, and the copy starts over.
What if there were two of you and you could give yourself the chance to start over?
When a woman chooses to transmit to a distant colony, before making the journey herself in a torpor ship, she arrives years later to find her copy has already built a life, changed her politics, and become a symbol in a societal conflict over what humanity is allowed to become. The man who traveled with her faces the same split - except his second self didn't adapt.
It radicalized.
Others aboard the ship find their own copies in their new home, while some expect to find a familiar face when it's actually long gone.
Showing up with the face of a dead loved one to a new home you aren't familiar with, where everyone remembers you - when you were never there...
Project Zero is a science fiction novel set in a future where the hardest questions aren't about the stars, but about what you owe to yourself when there are two of you. Does humanity's next chapter belong to the people who remember where they came from or the ones who got there first?
Near
[Standalone] When the man he spent forty years loving in private dies and leaves him a letter, a guarded Southern man reads his way to a truth he wasn't prepared for.
Written for ENG 323 - Introduction to Screenwriting, Southern New Hampshire University.
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Signum
PERMANENTLY ABANDONED - When a fleet signal specialist intercepts a transmission that shouldn't exist, a machine-scarred skeptic, a devout believer, and the specialist himself are forced into uneasy cooperation as the fleet's intelligence director races to erase it before it shatters the fragile order holding the last sixteen ships between the stars.
Days total
169