About David

I’m often the quiet observer in the room—the person watching the pause before an answer, the tension beneath a conversation, or the choices people make when fear and loyalty collide.

Those details are where my stories tend to begin.

I write science fiction because it gives me room to push ordinary human questions into extraordinary circumstances: What happens when trust becomes dangerous? How much control will people surrender for safety? What do old wounds teach us to fear, and how much of that fear belongs to the present?

The technology matters. The danger matters. But I’m most interested in what pressure reveals about a person.

I don’t write to create perfect heroes or simple villains. I’m interested in people trying to understand themselves while the world around them keeps demanding an answer.

That’s the territory I keep returning to: identity, autonomy, family, trust, trauma, resilience, and the systems that shape us—sometimes without our permission.