NOVELS

Dark Matter Literature is speculative fiction about the unseen parts of reality that shape the visible world. Like dark matter in physics, these hidden forces may be difficult or impossible to perceive directly, yet their effects can be seen in consciousness, memory, history, relationships, cultures and civilizations.

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Told in the modes of sacramental and mystical realism, Dark Matter Literature’s central premise is that visible reality is only part of the full story. What appears to be irrational, fractured or inexplicable makes sense when the missing parts of the story are restored. Those omissions include suppressed histories; forgotten memories; the experiences of marginalized, silenced or abused people; spiritual or metaphysical realities; and psychological blind spots.

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Across the novels, visible and Dark Matter realities exist alongside one another and bleed into each other. The Dark Matter Goddess embodies and presides over the unseen realm: she is associated with what has been excluded, overlooked, forgotten or rendered voiceless. Her intrusion into the five-sense world in Isis Chrysalis sparks a grand reckoning over the meaning of human integrity.

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At its deepest level, Dark Matter Literature asks:

If we could see all of reality in one continuity, what would the complete story of humanity be?