Null Point
Null Point is a home for fiction and poetry that moves in the space between memory and rupture. It gathers stories shaped by the places we carry—Ontario lakes in winter, Hanoi streets in monsoon heat, the rooms where grief and desire leave their residue. Each piece leans toward the cinematic: long shadows, arresting silences, the hum of a world on the edge of collapse. Null Point is where narrative becomes an aperture—opening toward the metaphysical, the existential, and the deeply human.
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Null Point is the core of my writing life: a home for fiction, poetry, and experimental work that crosses geographies, genres, and states of mind. It’s where the ideas that shape my larger projects first take form—early windows into the books I’m building with Ballerini Books Press, including Dominion Ashes: A Book of Decline, The Darkroom Exhibits, The Longing for Form, and The Commonplace Book.
The site takes its name from the instant where a story slips from experience into meaning—a point of radical stillness before narrative begins. That ethos guides everything here. Null Point is committed to work that rejects the ornamental and instead pursues clarity, intensity, and emotional precision. It is a place for composing in the aftermath: the charged quiet after an argument, the moment a memory fractures, the breath before a confession.
My creative mission is simple: to build a body of writing that is formally ambitious, emotionally exacting, and attuned to the landscapes—Canadian, Southeast Asian, psychological, and metaphysical—that have shaped my life. Null Point gathers these threads. It’s an evolving archive of short fiction, flash pieces, poems, serial experiments, and fragments from larger works-in-progress. The tone ranges from raw to lyrical, but the aim is constant: to write pieces that illuminate the pressures beneath ordinary life and reveal the unspoken stories we carry.
Null Point is not a brand. It’s a field of work, a running ledger of obsessions, and a place where readers can see the writing as it’s being made. Everything here participates in the larger project: a sustained attempt to confront memory, grief, ambition, masculinity, migration, and the metaphysical hunger at the heart of storytelling.