Current Projects
Smells Like Time Travel
Time Travel? There’s an app for that.
Logline:
Seeking to create a better future for himself in the past, Chris uses a time travel music app to shimmer back to his childhood years in order to make money but he gets caught up trying to save his mom from herself along with the world he abandoned.
Status:
The manuscript complete at 104,000 words
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Let’s be honest, the present is overrated: Growing older, outliving our childhood dreams, Crocs...It’s no wonder Chris Jung is always listening to songs that take him back. When he discovers Shimmer Pro ™, a time travel music app powered by nostalgia, Chris ditches the poorly written dystopia that is our social media age and shimmers back to 1976 where he gambles his way across the country to acquire seed money to invest into a little startup called Apple Computers. Wandering alone in an earth-tone world devoid of Starbucks and Netflix, Chris meets Jasmine Bartels, a young, idealistic public defender from Oakland, who he convinces to be his business partner and together they fund the PC revolution.
As he shimmers up the timeline to game the past, Chris’ nostalgia repeatedly places him in front of his mother’s house. Haunted by the shame he feels for abandoning his mom before her death, Chris implores her not to repeat the decisions that he believes led to her mental decline and eventual death. As if his family drama isn’t enough, Donna Haddad, a jaded time traveler from his future, tells Chris about a cross-temporal conglomerate who acquired a company in their timeline to power temporal portals and destroyed the world in the process. Donna, Chris, and Jasmine must join forces in the 1990s to take down the conglomerate’s target acquisition before it becomes the unstoppable Internet and energy magnate that creates the catastrophe. Since the fate of humanity will be decided in the past, it’s a good thing that music can take us to when we need to be.
This Is Not Really Happening
Logline:
Rhiannon is a religious studies professor researching the implications of the revelation that we live in a simulation when the scientists involved with the discovery are murdered.
Status:
The novella is complete at just under 19,000 words
Synopsis
Thirty years ago, Rhiannon’s mom disappeared. Now a professor at the Center for Applied Ontology, Rhiannon endeavors to grasp the implications of the recent discovery that proves we live in a simulation, a revelation so shocking it propels some towards violence while others, including her daughter Madeline, drop out of society altogether. When the scientists responsible for the mind-bending discovery are murdered and Madeline’s commune is attacked, Rhiannon races to save her daughter and learns that the attacks are related to her mom’s disappearance decades earlier and that she may be key to finding what lies beyond the simiverse.
Gray Alien's Burden
What if there was an alien invitation? Would we choose peace and prosperity even if it meant we were no longer in charge?
"Gray Alien's Burden" the slideshow movie is available on Youtube as a three part series. (manuscript is 9,800 words)
Anachronis Eats
Don't let the laws of temporal mechanics keep you from your favorite dish. Order from any restaurant that ever existed at Anachronis Eats today!
Logline: On Reggie's first day at Anachronis Eats, he and his trainer Bo Nguyen portal to 1985 to pick up a pizza order where Reggie discovers retail time travel has ruined the 1980s by overly nostalgic tourists before he gets picked up by the mafia mistaken for someone else.
Status: The short story is complete at 7,200 words
Shimmer Pro™
You know how that song takes you back? It's not just a feeling.
Logline: When Sarah gets laid off on her 40th birthday right as the pandemic hits, she discovers a time travel music app powered by nostalgia and gets stuck in the 1990s in her adolescent years.
Status: The short story is complete at 6,100 words