Story

The pain. I know that pain. I’ve touched its edges and dove into the very center deep within myself. It doesn’t go away by ignoring it. It keeps calling out to you and saying — see me, hear me. It doesn’t go away by filling it with someone else or something else. The pain will always be there until you face it and love it, and you tell the lost part of yourself that they are safe and that they are going to be ok.

My latest book — Wayward Explorers Club — takes you on a voyage of the imagination into the depths of space and the deepest parts of the human psyche.

Part sci-fi allegory, part journey into the unconscious, Wayward Explorers Club is an insightful and emotional meditation on what it means to heal from trauma.

Taking inspiration from Voyager 2 — the spacecraft launched in 1977 on a mission to explore the outer reaches of our solar system — this slim, surreal novella charts one man’s path toward recovery. He finds himself exploring the furthest, most difficult parts of his own past and self, not only inwardly but on an extraordinary interstellar adventure. Weaving together computer science, space exploration, astrophysics, music, poetry, rural life, and the relationships we must forge with our inner children and the disjointed parts of the self in order to heal, this is a mystical story at once entirely particular and profoundly universal.