Writing

Armies Seize Territory. Empires Seize Language.

What renaming a lake tells us about sovereignty, and the normalization of ownership

Behind 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 ...

Wearing 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.

Pejorative: 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.

Echoes of Redemption: 4 Short Stories of Sacrifice & Redemption

Short Fiction: Hyperopic Dissidence

Short Fiction: Dust off

Short 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?

Short Fiction: Disunity