Writing Portfolio

The annals of history are stacked with tyrants. Men who killed for power. Men who hid behind politics, religion, or madness. But Ivan IV...

Tuam. A small town in County Galway, Ireland. Quiet. Green. Catholic to the bone. The kind of place where lace curtains flutter behind...

Desire in chains, longing like a knife. Love songs written in blood. And women, always on the pedestal, always in the cage. We’re told...

The year is 1349. The world is rotting. Bubonic plague sweeps across Europe like a black tide. Cities reek of corpses. Clergy lie dead in...

Let’s start with a confession. You’ve imagined it. Don’t lie. Him: hair damp with sweat, cheek cut from battle, blood, not all his, dried...

History is full of secrets , but few are as enduring or as haunting as the one France buried under prison walls and royal decrees: the...

Two boys walk into the Tower of London. Not prisoners. Not traitors. Not enemies. They were heirs. They were boys. Children. Edward V,...

Where God wept, and we made it poetry. You know the story. Jesus. The garden. Sweating blood under moonlight while his friends fall...

“He is my king. The Leper King. He does not feel. He does not fear.” The words ring hollow, even in the sacred halls of Jerusalem. They...

The tyrant who danced while Rome burned, a flaming statue of a king who fed on art, insanity, and pyres. The fire of Rome wasn’t just a...

Suffering as spectacle. The patron saint of aesthetic agony. There’s a perverse poetry to St. Sebastian, isn’t there? His image is...

A Kingdom of Flesh, Gold, and Rotting Divinity They called him the Sun King. Louis Quatorze. le Roi Soleil . “I am the state.” Not...