Writings

Once again inspired by my wife and her personal life, I imagined a breakup story but from the perspective of a couple of friends. As we know, sometimes, a friend breakup is even harder than a romance breakup.

This one took a bit of brainstorming. My goal for my previous work was to diversify the types of characters I wrote. For this one, I went back to what I was familiar with: a road trip story about grieving. An impossible situation: what if a death in the family arrived in the middle of…

I was inspired by my wife and her sister and writing about actual Asian things. Previously, I only wrote about white people, but now I decided to stick to what I knew: NYC, Chinatown, and Asian women. The story came about from an idea I had to just talk about an Asian women, her sister,…

I thought of this one after seeing Armageddon Time (2022). Spoilers to follow. After a year, I’ve revisited this story. For fun, I let an AI summarizer broken down the themes and summary and I forgot how dark this one got. I seem to have a running throughline of broken familial bonds and a desire…

This one spilled out of me fast. The Little Miss Sunshine influence is obvious. I disciplined myself into writing a <100 page story. Minot, ND got way out of hand (although I am very proud of it!) and I wanted to keep this one very focused. The basic building blocks fell into place quite quickly,…

This was something I never intended to share. But the more I thought about it, the more I wanted to share it because this was the point of the website after all. Til It’s Over is a personal story, heavily inspired by true events. It’s basically an autobiography. It was inspired by a meeting I…