Writing Portfolio

Some people bounce back from divorce like they just left a bad concert early. They shrug off the grief like last night’s hangover. A shot...

Touch is a human necessity.  We reach for warmth, breath, presence. When someone dies, the body, once porous and living, becomes separate...

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

In houses like this, everything is beautiful. The bushes are trimmed. The curtains match. The carpets are vacuumed. The son is dead. This...

There’s a special hell reserved for people still in love with the ones who destroyed them. Not the kind of destruction that makes a good...

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...

Trigger warning: This piece discusses themes of self-harm, bodily trauma, and spiritualised pain in graphic and metaphorical detail. A...

There’s something about Cillian Murphy  that makes him perfect for playing men who are barely holding it together . His face feels like...

A grim exploration of vanishing quietly, dying without witness, and the dread of being unremarkable in the end. Not the act of dying, but...

Falling for bones, lungs, blood maps—emotional intimacy through internal anatomy. Some people fall for eyes or smiles. I fall for...

There’s a certain sacredness  to suffering. Not the weak, whiny kind that begs for sympathy—but the kind that forges . The kind of pain...

Borderline Personality Disorder. Three words that sound clinical, manageable, maybe even tame if you've only ever read about it in a...

In the deepest, darkest corners of the human psyche, where lust and taboo intertwine like smoke and mirrors, there’s a twisted metaphor...

The Sophie Lancaster murder case, which tragically unfolded in 2007, drew national attention to the issues of hate crimes and societal...