In Progress
The manuscript is complete at five acts and being formatted for release. Front and back matter, epigraphs, and final poem placements are finalized.
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A five-act reckoning with love, ruin, and the slow architecture of coming back to yourself — Salt and Stone traces one woman's descent through collision, constant night, salt and sacrifice, aegis and echo, and finally, the aftermath she builds with her own hands.
Written under the name Calliope Reyes, this is a confessional, mythologically-inflected collection — drawing on Dante, the Greek pantheon, and the language of ritual and liturgy — for anyone who has ever mistaken the storm for the shelter.
From the Book
The tide went out. The stone remained.
— Orbit, closing epigraph
It started on a pier...
— Act I, prose preface
I stopped offering myself as sanctuary and started building one of my own.
— Act III, prose preface
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