Fiction written by humans, for readers who need something real.

Permanent Scars follows Oto, a teenager living with Bipolar 1 disorder, through hospitalization, diagnosis, family trauma, and the difficult return to ordinary life. It is a serious literary novel about illness, silence, survival, and the question of what life can still become.

The author writes from lived experience: 23 years of treatment, six psychiatric admissions, and a story drawn closely from real life. Nothing here is offered as easy explanation; the novel lives in the texture of days as they are actually lived.

My Dad follows Carl, Oto’s biological father, across his whole life: a boy playing in the Arizona desert, a young man racing a souped-up ’67 Chevy with Ana beside him, a mechanic, a husband, and a father whose own demons keep pulling him away.

Told in the same short, plain-spoken scenes as Permanent Scars, it traces the on-again, off-again relationship between Carl and Oto, and what a son chooses to carry forward and what he refuses to become. Hanah and Oto return throughout.