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...

St. Mary of Egypt’s story doesn’t start in purity, and it doesn’t end with a neatly tied bow of redemption. Her story begins with sin....

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,...

Patron saint of vision—because they tried to take hers away. She stands in a haze of candle smoke, face serene, hands outstretched, and...

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...