creative
here’s a look at short stories and poetry i’ve published
My short story, The Pitstop, was featured in Worldbuilding Magazine’s Philosophy & Intellectual Pursuits issue.
The story follows Rregulle, a troubled man who carries the scars of his own past. It blends myth, memory, and survival into a human tale of grief, resilience, and empathy.
Rregulle meets a wounded Jumi woman, the last of her kind after her people are massacred for the gems that define them. The Jumi stumbles into a roadside garage where Rregulle and his crew must decide how far they will go to save a stranger. The narrative explores universal themes of trauma, compassion, cultural loss, and the ways we carry one another’s pain through Rregulle’s willingness to risk his own life by taking on the burden of the Jumi’s gem. This fantasy story is rooted in shared human struggles; the need to be seen in suffering, the weight of memory, and the hope of connection across our differences.
La Tijana was featured in Dominican Writers’ Association’s Quislaona, A Dominican Fantasy Anthology. A lyrical tale that blends myth, memory, and cultural inheritance into a meditation on time and loss.
Pacifica Areche is a young girl who nearly drowns after an encounter with time-lost “Travelers.” Revived through her grandmother’s sacred water vessel, la tijana, she survives, but loses her hearing and is bound to the voices of souls echoing through bodies of water. As she grows, Pacifica confronts the weight of prophecy, the hunger for the mystical larimar gems, and the devastation wrought by human greed and war. La Tijana is a folklore that places disability, intergenerational bonds, and socio-political critique together into a story defined by the human experience.
Four (4) poems part of my ReConnection collection were featured in the Promethean quarterly magazine by my alma mater, CUNY City College of New York.
The poems interweave memory, family, culture, and food into reflections that honor both the ordinary and the intimate. They capture the rhythms of daily Dominican life, and move into solemn images of land, labor, and hidden shames across generations. Through them, I also juxtapose childhood meals, workplace leftovers, and vegetarian curiosity with the act of preparing food as meditation on patience.
My self-published poetry book on Amazon.
Through vulnerable reflections of my upbringing and young adult life in New York City, I explore desire, identity, ancestry, and the body as both sanctuary and battleground. I sought to situate my personal experiences within cultural and historical contexts through themes of spirituality, sensuality, and intergenerational traumas. All in all, it is a personal narrative that’s confessional and also universal to the human experience.