After completing my most recent novel, Worlds Last Imagined, it, along with two other novels–No One Dreams in Color and None So Distant–comprise what I’m calling my Blue Star trilogy (2020-2024). The blue star reference pertains, at least in its seed-basis, to an “above air” ceremony I attended on winter solstice night, 2020, led by my friend, Duane Crowfeather.

These novels are spiritual kin, revolving around an axis of shared themes: vanishing points, storytelling, myth, dream-consciousness, memory, language and silence, film, music, the amorphic relationship between internal and external realities, and cyclical journeys through bardo chambers. Also, I got to explore and develop a style of playing, a “free-jazz-meets-vaudeville” correlative, which is called apocalyptic bop. More on that another time.

No One Dreams in Color is slated to be published in spring 2026 by Unsolicited Press. I continue my active search for supportive homes for the other two novels.

Sticky-note reminder to metamorphic self: Stories are the impossible. They never die.