Creative Writing
Worship Of One
Based on the “Silent Twins,” June and Jennifer Gibbons who only communicated with each other in a secret language for years, becoming famous for their
Sentence Variations
A formal language experiment that deconstructs and reimagines the opening line of Fahrenheit 451. Through distortion, repetition, and play, the piece interrogates meaning, authorship, andthe
Postcards from Planet Nowhere
A speculative prose and poetry collection set on a fictional planet that mirrors emotionalliminality and self exile.
People Watching Exercise
A prose piece written in script form that captures the intimate inner life of a stranger through small gestures and habitual movements.
Love Letters, Fan Mail, and Ramen
An epistolary project composed of unsent letters written over five months to lovers, celebrities, and emotional stand ins.
Poetry Translation: Biografia para Encontrarme by Mario Benedetti
A creative literary translation of poems from Biografía para Encontrarme that preserves Benedetti’s emotional intimacy while reimagining tone, rhythm, an d imagery in English. Thework centers on uncertainty, homeland, and the quiet endurance of the human spirit.
Lonely Assasins
A dark speculative short story centered on a time bending predator who feeds on fear and inevitability. These are the moving statues from Doctor Who, ready to make their move as soon as you look away.
Love In Transit by Marteena Mendelssohn
A dialogue driven rom-come set in an overbooked airport where two former lovers unexpectedly
reunite.
The Milk Play
A visceral and surreal stage play that explores inherited trauma, motherhood, and bodily
autonomy through moments of domestic collapse and psychological rupture.
Grievances from a Soul of Sorrow– Marteena Mendelssohn
An ekphrastic lyrical meditation on shared identity, grief, and faith, inspired by Beauford
Delaney’s Untitled masterpiece and written in a collective voice. The piece explores how light,
belief, and motion forward persist even when the self is fractured by sorrow and violence.
#ExploitYourTrauma: The Media Spectacle of a Tragedy
A critical analysis of Jordan Peele’s Nope that interrogates the commodification of tragedy in digital and entertainment culture.
Vedic Heterodoxy: The divine against the individual
A comparative literary analysis examining how kavya is used in the Valmiki Ramayana versus
Handsome Nanda to promote Brahmanism and Buddhism. The piece argues that Buddhist
heterodox texts validate human emotion and choice more effectively than divine obligation.
New Age Witchcraft: WitchTok and White WashingBy Marteena
An exploration of witchcraft as both spiritual practice and commodified lifestyle, with attention to cultural origins and appropriation. The essay emphasizes historical literacy and ethical participation and witchcraft as a tool for communal and personal empowerment, especially among women.
Réveiller Aubervilliers (Pilot)
A darkly comedic pilot following Hassan, a French-Palestinian young man navigating class,
racism, and identity in the Parisian suburbs. The series blends satire, social commentary, and
kinetic storytelling to examine survival and inherited marginalization.
Poetry Translation: Biografia para Encontrarme by Mario Benedetti
A creative literary translation of poems from Biografía para Encontrarme that preserves Benedetti’s emotional intimacy while reimagining tone, rhythm, an d imagery in English. Thework centers on uncertainty, homeland, and the quiet endurance of the human spirit.
Grievances from a Soul of Sorrow– Marteena Mendelssohn
An ekphrastic lyrical meditation on shared identity, grief, and faith, inspired by Beauford
Delaney’s Untitled masterpiece and written in a collective voice. The piece explores how light,
belief, and motion forward persist even when the self is fractured by sorrow and violence.
Réveiller Aubervilliers (Pilot)
A darkly comedic pilot following Hassan, a French-Palestinian young man navigating class,
racism, and identity in the Parisian suburbs. The series blends satire, social commentary, and
kinetic storytelling to examine survival and inherited marginalization.
Love In Transit by Marteena Mendelssohn
A dialogue driven rom-come set in an overbooked airport where two former lovers unexpectedly
reunite.
The Milk Play
A visceral and surreal stage play that explores inherited trauma, motherhood, and bodily
autonomy through moments of domestic collapse and psychological rupture.
Worship Of One
Based on the “Silent Twins,” June and Jennifer Gibbons who only communicated with each other in a secret language for years, becoming famous for their
Sentence Variations
A formal language experiment that deconstructs and reimagines the opening line of Fahrenheit 451. Through distortion, repetition, and play, the piece interrogates meaning, authorship, andthe
Postcards from Planet Nowhere
A speculative prose and poetry collection set on a fictional planet that mirrors emotionalliminality and self exile.
People Watching Exercise
A prose piece written in script form that captures the intimate inner life of a stranger through small gestures and habitual movements.
Love Letters, Fan Mail, and Ramen
An epistolary project composed of unsent letters written over five months to lovers, celebrities, and emotional stand ins.
Lonely Assasins
A dark speculative short story centered on a time bending predator who feeds on fear and inevitability. These are the moving statues from Doctor Who, ready to make their move as soon as you look away.
#ExploitYourTrauma: The Media Spectacle of a Tragedy
A critical analysis of Jordan Peele’s Nope that interrogates the commodification of tragedy in digital and entertainment culture.
Vedic Heterodoxy: The divine against the individual
A comparative literary analysis examining how kavya is used in the Valmiki Ramayana versus
Handsome Nanda to promote Brahmanism and Buddhism. The piece argues that Buddhist
heterodox texts validate human emotion and choice more effectively than divine obligation.
New Age Witchcraft: WitchTok and White WashingBy Marteena
An exploration of witchcraft as both spiritual practice and commodified lifestyle, with attention to cultural origins and appropriation. The essay emphasizes historical literacy and ethical participation and witchcraft as a tool for communal and personal empowerment, especially among women.