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Armies Seize Territory. Empires Seize Language.
What renaming a lake tells us about sovereignty, and the normalization of ownership
Aug 29, 2026 · 9 min read · 1 like · 11 viewsBehind the Pages of Pejorative: With the Author
Every story starts with a spark. For Pejorative: Echoes of a Nation, that spark was a question I asked on my blog, just a few “what if” scenarios about Alberta leaving Canada. At the time, it felt like speculative fiction. But the more I followed the rhetoric, the clearer it became that the lines between reality and fiction were blurring. What started as a thought experiment grew into something much deeper, a layered story about propaganda, memory, and the quiet erasure of national identity. In ...
May 10, 2026 · 5 min read · likes not linked · 4 viewsWearing Too Many Hats (and Writing Anyway)
There’s a specific kind of exhaustion that comes from context switching—jumping from writing fiction to analyzing sales dashboards to scheduling posts.
Dec 18, 2025 · 5 min read · 0 likes · 1 viewPejorative: Echoes of a Nation
Pejorative: Echoes of a Nation is a hauntingly plausible speculative novel told through a fractured archive of testimonies, smuggled documents, corrupted broadcasts, and the reflections of a vanished resistance archivist. Set in a near-future Canada quietly annexed under the banner of continental “unity,” the story unfolds through recovered files curated by the last person who tried to remember out loud—Jason Butterfield.
Oct 13, 2025 · 1 min read · 0 likes · 2 viewsEchoes of Redemption: 4 Short Stories of Sacrifice & Redemption
Nov 12, 2024 · 1 min read · likes not linked · 2 viewsShort Fiction: Hyperopic Dissidence
Dec 9, 2017 · 7 min read · likes not linked · 2 viewsShort Fiction: Dust off
Nov 9, 2017 · 3 min read · likes not linked · 2 viewsShort Fiction: A.D.A.M.
It's all a ruse or is it real /end program. You decide. Do we actually live in a computer simulation?
Sep 9, 2017 · 2 min read · likes not linked · 2 views