I’ve recently released a new short story. Red Butterfly concerns a man grappling with repressed memories of abuse in a cult his parents were part of when he was a child. It’s
a companion piece of sorts to an earlier short story, Aftermath, about a young woman returning to her estranged mother after leaving a cult. This brace of stories about coming to terms with leaving cults are quite personal to me, as they are in part informed by personal experience. But to be clear: both are fiction.

You can read both parts of Red Butterfly on Medium (here) or on Substack (here), depending on whether you have a Medium account, or if you subscribe to me on Substack (a mere $5 a month for unlimited access to short stories, classic film analysis, top tens, and my full film review archive). There’s a link to the second part at the end of the first.