Notes

This work was written over time.

Not to explain the West, but to listen to it—after the urgency passed, after the names were changed, after the reasons stopped holding.

The stories here are not arranged to guide anyone forward. They exist alongside one another, connected by consequence rather than chronology.

Some of these books were written years apart. Others were written quickly and left alone. All of them are concerned with what people carry when nothing is asking them to explain it.

There is no required order.

If something here feels unfinished, that is intentional.

This work is ongoing.