Author. Adventurer.
About Jonah
Jonah is a writer and adventurer based in central Florida. A modern Romantic, when he isn’t writing, he’s exploring the wilds or devouring uplifting fiction. He is currently seeking publication for his first novel, Through Glass Darkly.Jonah speaks English and Japanese, and has some Spanish and Scots. He lived in Japan twice and was awarded the Foreign Ministers’ Commendation from the Japanese government in 2016. This international perspective informs his writing, bringing a fresh, layered synthesis of culture and experience.
His professional writing spans 15 years producing newsletters, educational publications, and website copy for government agencies, along with essays and articles for outlets like JETwit and Bay Soundings. One essay about his time in Japan earned him a meeting with Japanese officials on cultural exchange.
Jonah is neurodivergent and a survivor of developmental trauma. His work is an extension of himself: he writes to immerse the reader fully, inviting them to inhabit the story and converse with the narrative.
An adventurer at heart, he has scaled peaks, slogged jungles, and sounded depths. He also runs a nonprofit EteamSVC helping divergent individuals connect, explore, and discover themselves through creative and experiential programs.
Glass Dogs Through Glass Darkly
It’s one thing to discover your own reality. It’s another to live it in a world that insists you’re wrong, broken… and safer that way. Life in the Lowlands is precarious when you’re Tharmenaea. Perception bends reality, night holds equal weight to day, and the axis of good and bad tilts differently for those born attuned to deeper currents. They navigate a world that wasn’t built for them — one that punishes the very senses that shape their truth.Tory: barely verbal, carrying trauma like a blade she hasn’t yet learned to wield.
Beck: a Waterborne struggling to contain the ocean rising inside him.
Rat and Sindé: lore-keepers trying to help Nicholas piece together a shattered Earthborne heritage.
Amy: the kind Lowlander whose gilded life becomes a cage the moment she sides with the truth.
Through Glass Darkly is a mythic tale of perception, belonging, and survival in a world that prefers its magic—and its misfits—sanitized out of view. It’s darker than it first appears, more hopeful than it has any right to be, and perhaps uncomfortably familiar.
Discover the world of Glass Dogs
Have you ever seen a Glass Dog?I can tell by your reaction you haven't. That's not your fault. Most Lower Country eyes haven't grown real enough to perceive Glass. Closest to the Majikal origin, Glass is crystal clear reality. It roots in places where deep pain has produced the richest soil. As a person changes, the Glass rises through them, mingling their nature: Earth, Water, Ether... becoming a painted pony, half-mortal, half true.
Glass grows whether one wants it or not. To understand its lore, you must welcome it. To wield its power, you must be willing to see reality unfiltered, wild, and unbearably honest. And when you do, you learn the secret at the heart of the Glass: in spite of pain and injustice and all the illusions of the Lowlands… in the unclouded truth, things cannot be other than okay.
Blending the mythic sensibility of the Romantic fairy tale with the sharper insights of lived neurodiversity, Glass Dogs explores reality, suffering, and hope from the inside out. And who knows... you might find you were one of us all along.
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