Work
Stories and translations written in the Mediterranean Gothic mode — horror under hard light.
Selected Fiction
A father buys a bear in the hospital gift shop. The bag never gets opened.
Paid by the box, a technician catalogues a church crypt. The form has a line for observations. He leaves it blank.
A man brings a wax heart to an empty chapel, too late. The wax keeps the print of his hand.
A torturer prepares a floor of broken pottery for a saint who expects angels.
A wound opens on a man's wrist every Friday. He doesn't pray. He gets a knife.
She found a way out. She didn't take it.
All translations into Catalan/Valencian →
Publications
Forthcoming
Harvest of Bone
2026
Forty degrees in the Valencian hinterland, and a woman comes back to the village that drove her out, to bury the father who hanged himself. The old people on the church steps tell her not to ring the death bell — no hands but his have pulled that rope in twenty years. She climbs the tower anyway.
A vampire crosses the nave of a cathedral where the Holy Grail sits behind glass and Ausiàs March lies under the pews. He finds a priest who has stopped knowing whether his dying mother saw Christ or a brain shutting down. The priest does not resist.
The night of his first communion, a Valencian boy hears a voice for the first time. It speaks only to those old enough to choose — and night after night, after prayers, it teaches him what flesh does when you press just right.
A son packs up his parents' house the day of the funeral. On a shelf, the Monopoly box sealed in cellophane — thirty years unopened, a game they never agreed to play. He tears the plastic.
A Valencian kitchen. A grandmother's hands. The bread she kneads carries the weight of everything she will never say — violence absorbed into dough, silence baked into ritual.
A man returns to an abandoned hermitage in the Valencian mountains. What he finds is not God but the residue faith leaves behind.
2025
My Sumer
An eight-year-old writes about his summer at the farmhouse. The dogs dig up the garden. So does he. What he finds is not a dog bone.
Essays
Signed non-fiction on the book record and translation, published in MIDAS — Eurac Research and LSE Impact Blog. Read the essays →