is a fiction writer exploring the quiet edges where material craft, folk belief, and intergenerational memory overlap. Their work favors restrained atmospherics over spectacle, drawing on traditional mortuary carpentry, effigy lore, and the poetics of unfinished labor. In “Still Flame, Remembered Names,” they continue an ongoing interest in how incomplete objects act as emotional archives—sites where grief, duty, and tentative modern rationalism negotiate coexistence. They write with an ethnographic sensitivity while deliberately fictionalizing ritual detail to avoid prescriptive imitation.
