This year has brought change on every level—and while I continue to navigate the personal and practical challenges of transition, my creative life is blossoming in parallel. Several new stories have taken root, and others are ripening into readiness. Many of you have encountered pieces of these on my website, but I wanted to gather them here in one place: the serious, the funny, the speculative, the deeply personal.
Here’s a look at what’s coming next.
🛸 Return to Base: The Last Deployment of Amal
This spiritual fiction novel follows Amal, a genderless soul who keeps reincarnating and dying by suicide before completing their mission. Return to Base chronicles Amal’s final deployment—a last chance to get it right, to break the cycle, and to graduate from the earthly realm.
Framed with a metaphysical military theme, each life is a mission: recon, training, or search and rescue. Along the way, Amal encounters a soul counterpart who returns in different lifetimes and genders, sometimes as lover, sometimes as adversary. The afterlife is a place of healing and instruction—but time is nonlinear, and not all souls return.
🠖 More about Return to Base coming soon
🎭 Missed Signals
Missed Signals tells the story of Claire Wren, a neurodivergent woman who performs one of her original songs at an open mic night and catches the attention of Leo Frost, a charismatic musician with a seductive public persona. Their connection is immediate—but confusing.
The play explores romantic initiative, double standards, and emotional ambiguity. Claire remains sympathetic throughout—even as she struggles to decipher Leo’s mixed signals. At its core, it asks: What happens when a woman refuses to wait passively to be chosen? And what does it cost her?
🧠 Executive Disorder
My body-swapping teen comedy takes a political detour when a group of high school students wake up in the bodies of top White House officials. With foreign crises, nuclear codes, and puberty all colliding at once, they must somehow run the country—and pass math class.
It’s absurd, fast-paced, and oddly hopeful. Teenagers make terrible presidents… but maybe not as bad as some of the adults.
🠖 More about Executive Disorder coming soon
⚙️ Two Point O
Anna is 80 years old when she’s selected for an experimental program that reverse-ages her to 20. The result: a body that’s not just young but enhanced—faster, stronger, sharper than before. But Anna’s past still exists, and her enemies haven’t aged at all.
Two Point O explores age, power, and identity in a near-future world. It also gave rise to Virtuosos, my earlier TV pilot about a full-immersion virtual reality studio in the 2040s. So in a way, this novel is the original seed—now growing into something far more expansive.
🠖 More on Two Point O soon to come
🎸 The Shell
Recently shortlisted for the New Ideas Festival, The Shell is a raw and layered play about trauma, memory, and artistic survival.
The story centres on Clarice, a woman who kept a memento of a man she loved—Adam, a charismatic and damaged soul whose disappearance shattered her. Years later, she crosses paths with Abe, an aging rocker with his own regrets and secrets. As the past resurfaces, the play explores erasure—of art, of emotion, of self—and the fierce will it takes to reclaim your own narrative.
There’s no magic here. Just truth, ache, and the art of healing.
📺 Pretty Women
Set in a suburban home brimming with beauty products and unspoken tension, Pretty Women is a TV pilot about a cosmetic-surgery-obsessed mom, her brainy daughter, and the transgender woman who becomes their new tenant.
What begins as awkward cohabitation turns into something surprisingly rich, as all three women confront the pressures—and pleasures—of self-definition. It’s quirky, feminist, and sharply observed.
🠖 More on Pretty Women – coming soon
⚓️ Horatio
This one’s close to my heart—and my heritage.
Horatio is a historical comedy reimagining the life of Lord Nelson, had he survived the Battle of Trafalgar. In this alternate timeline, Nelson is still young, ambitious, and prone to getting into trouble—even when there are no wars left to fight.
Also aboard: Bosun, the ship’s Newfoundland dog, who causes almost as much confusion as the admiral himself. Bosun is based on a composite of real-life furbabies.
Fun fact: the original novel, written by my late father, was kept in Prince Philip’s personal library—and is still there. My version honours that legacy while giving Nelson a second act, complete with irony, wit, and a shipload of mishaps.
🧬 A New Idea: Erasure, AI, and Resistance
While listening to Geoffrey Hinton speak about AI risks during a recent car ride, an idea began to form: a woman slowly realizing she’s been overtaken by AI. Her memories aren’t just foggy—they’ve been altered or removed. Her actions are no longer hers. And yet… something inside her refuses to yield.
The story is still skeletal, but its emotional core is already pulsing: resistance, autonomy, and the irreducible spark of what makes us human.
If any of these projects pique your curiosity, feel free to explore the site. Some already have full pages; others are just emerging. You can also sign up for updates—or just keep checking back.
There’s more to come.
There’s always more to come.
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Dear Naomi;
It is exciting and inspiring to get this glimpse of all the creative projects you have on the go!
Peace,
Darrow