The Last Explorer

Selection from a transposition of The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle into modern Norfolk. One of the fun things about adaptation, especially of canonical literature or genre fiction, is reading all the criticism about a work. I picked up on one journal article’s thesis, which was that The Last Unicorn was about [...]

Jack of Diamonds

“Jack of Diamonds” is an early screenplay, but it is one of my favorite. It has a richness beyond the noun-verb-direct object action text that is the paradigm du jour in scriptwriting classes. I think it’s important to be evocative in a script; the writer’s job, after all, is to inspire not only [...]

Judgement Day

This is a spec script for the critically-acclaimed Sci Fi television show Battlestar Galactica. It takes place in between episodes 14 and 15 in the second season of the show and ties up some loose ends in a fairly loose part of the season, to be honest. After review, I decided that I [...]

Ambient Darkness

“Ambient Darkness” is the second episode of an hour-long television series that I created, pitched, and helped flesh out in my final year of undergraduate school under the tutelage of Canadian screenwriter Frank Borg. I worked with a fairly unlikely and diverse team that included two Film Production students and a friend of mine [...]