On the road to Timbuktu, a dreamwalk reunion under silver dunes — and the night Karim negotiated two hundred metres of Malian scrubland in his underwear with a cooking pot and three unimpressed hyenas. Field notes from The Agbara Chronicles.
The Wolf Remembers: Dacian Mythology and East African Cosmology — A Reader’s Companion to The Memory Cartographer
Field notes from a Dacian wolf-priest who has been running this continent longer than most of its languages have existed. A reader’s companion to The Memory Cartographer — Vodun, shapeshifters, East African cosmology, and the language the body remembers before the mind catches up. Free on Kobo.
The Archangel’s Archive
Operational field notes from a KGB archangel who has kept records across centuries — and failed at detachment exactly once. Read free on Kobo.
Hive, High Five, or Just Hype?
A letter after “Dear Drake and dynasts” This morning I had one of those encounters: fate gives a gentle high five, and the universe slaps me back into the other half of my brain. Since that earlier letter, I wrote that the hive mind was gone and the alpha had retired to the mirror, busy…
SIRA: The Swahili Word That Changed How I Write About Memory
Field Notes from Dar es Salaam — Behind the Scenes Sira — the path that was always meant for your feet. There are words that stop you mid-sentence when you first hear them. Sira. Kiswahili for biography — but not the kind you find in a library. Not chronology, not curriculum vitae. The path itself,…
Fieldwork at the Crossroads: Vodun, Twins, and a Wolf in Cotonou
Field notes from editing Book V, Part III The Kivuko Chronicles, of The Memory Cartographer. This week I’m deep in the opening of Book V, Part III of The Memory Cartographer: Elena six months pregnant in Cotonou, trying very hard to pretend this is still just “fieldwork.” Breakfast at the Sofitel, security logistics, anthropologist armour firmly in…
The Holographer’s Atlas
CUCO ’88 I was walking down Calle Gerona in red high heels, a short red dress, my hair long down my back. My hotel was tucked in the old quarters and I was heading toward the center—girl on a mission. Traffic crawled, thick and impatient. The catcalls were just part of the local weather, but…
The Memory Cartographer
The Alkebulan Chronicles — Book V is published The Memory Cartographer · Book V · Part I. The Mauritanian desert, a ruined well, gunfire, and a pack of wolves materialising out of the dark. Elena is running. She is also, as it happens, four months pregnant. One by one they emerge — fantastic shapes, silver…
The Memory Cartographer
Book V Part I The Alkebulan Chronicles The car rattles to a gentle stop, dust swirling in the late-day sun. Beyond the windshield: the barren edge of the border crossing, a horizon line between worlds. Karim turns to me, expression suddenly serious. “Elena. From here on, you’ll need to pose as my wife.” I arch…
The Goldfall Chronicles
Excerpt Book IV – Part III Elena Delange is back in London. What happens next, she did not see coming. The room freezes. Every eye flicks to my silk blouse, where delicate streaks of gold crawl down from my breasts, catching the overhead light. “You must be kidding me,” I snap. “Of all the moments,…
The Memory Cartographer 