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Behind the Pages of Pejorative: With the Author

Every story starts with a spark. For Pejorative: Echoes of a Nation, that spark was a question I asked on my blog, just a few “what if” scenarios about Alberta leaving Canada. At the time, it felt like speculative fiction. But the more I followed the rhetoric, the clearer it became that the lines between reality and fiction were blurring. What started as a thought experiment grew into something much deeper, a layered story about propaganda, memory, and the quiet erasure of national identity. In ...

May 10, 2026 · 5 min read · likes not linked · 2 views

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Wearing Too Many Hats (and Writing Anyway)

There’s a specific kind of exhaustion that comes from context switching—jumping from writing fiction to analyzing sales dashboards to scheduling posts.

Dec 18, 2025 · 5 min read · 0 likes · 1 view
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