When you go looking for trouble and find it, you have to deal with the consequences.

Keeping a diary had always been my way of sorting through emotions I wasn’t ready to say out loud. I never imagined those private pages would become the center of the biggest argument I’d ever had ...

In the spring of 2020, as the pandemic continued to lash us with its silent poisons, I found myself reflexively writing a story about a complicated young man with a perhaps delusional spirituality.