THE END!
Undertow First Draft- Horror Novel set in 1992 Los Angeles during the LA Riots.
Today! February 21st 2026! Today is the day! I could write the words THE END.
I got the idea for Undertow back in 2020, but I sat on it for a while. I lived through this event and writing a horror novel set here seemed not only traumatic but also I was afraid of being disrespectful to others who lived it and those who died.
It took me a few years to come around to face what I was really afraid of, and that was not being able to write something scary, poignant, respectful, imaginative, and also true. You know light work. 😏
After some false starts on other projects I couldn’t let this one go. I decided that this was my story to tell, so I was going to tell it. I started writing it late 2024. It’s taken me about 14 months to get this first draft done, but there THE END! It’s messy and needs a lot of work but whew. In celebration I thought I would share a little bit.

Like the Moodboard that’s kept me on track for all these months and of course the playlist.
In-world the main character has an Aunt, who is fun, charismatic, eclectic and tragically unwell. Her taste in music. is all over the map. Her taped-from-the-radio mixed tape is the background track for the book.
I wonder if you will be able to read the rises and falls in the narrative from the playlist.
Aunt Vy's Mixtape
I hope so…
I’m going to leave this manuscript to marinate in a digital drawer for a month while I do some prep on my next one (a delightfully fun piece of nonsense about Bigfoot and conspiracy theories)
I hope you enjoy the playlist
-Fight the Power!



Looking forward to it!!!