DJ Atkinson
History with a heartbeat. Mystery with a memory. Prose that lingers.
Long Shot
(Finished Editing)
Raised on a Saskatchewan reserve, Thomas Avery—son of the Indian Agent—grew up alongside Cree boys who taught him to track, to listen, and to shoot. When war comes, he carries those lessons to the trenches of Europe, where silence becomes survival and mercy takes aim through a rifle’s scope. In the shattered fields of Passchendaele, he meets Francis Pegahmagabow, a legendary Indigenous sniper whose calm courage forces Thomas to face what the war—and his own history—have made of him. Long Shot is a story of friendship, identity, and the long echo of conscience in a world that’s forgotten how to listen.
The Committee
(In Beta Reading)
A sane family moves to a small island near Nanaimo expecting peace, ocean air, and maybe a few friendly neighbours. Instead, they collide with a community run on committees, “pilot programs,” and rituals so polite they feel vaguely threatening. When a purple Princess Diana Beanie Baby becomes a local “artifact,” rumours spread, clipboards appear, and the island’s quiet absurdity turns into full theatre. Dark, dry, and sharply funny, The Committee is a satire about bureaucracy, belonging, and the strange comfort of laughing when life gets weird—because it always does.
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