projects in the hopper

 

Mamas: Short Stories

Stories of maternal love, devotion, desire, demise.

Sample story: The Ex-Puritan Magazine - “Signpost”


Zak Jones - I Come up from the Earth

Cover mockup by Neil Rimmer

I Come up from the Earth: Poems

A collection of poetry rooted in nostalgia and dying for deliverance.

Sample poems: Vallum Magazine vol. 19 no. 2 - “No Photos of Ralph”

tba (Western University) vol. 4 no. 1 PROPHECY: “We May Be So Tucked”


The Liberals: a Novel

Craig, a navy veteran, elite college grad and former congressional staffer now in his mid-thirties, returns to D.C. from sensitive, but not entirely secret diplomatic work in Central Asia. Although it has only been a year, he tries to resume his former life but feels like an alien impersonator. Anomic, disjointed, it is as though time has sped up, and every facet of Craig’s world has been altered somehow; is manufactured, now; shallow. The premises of American life that inspired his service and sacrifice are shifting under his feet. But has the country changed, or has Craig? Torn between two increasingly divergent sets of values and commitments, he finds himself in a dilemma with profound political and moral implications.