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Creative
Processing.

Fiction. Myth. Music. The Conch — a sequel to Lord of the Flies. The NeuroSpicy Gospels — three works using biblical figures as a mythic lens. I Am Joshua — an album by Wolf and the Machine. The Icarus Letter. The body of work that came out of the experience, made through story instead of argument. Show, don't tell.

Featured project

The NeuroSpicy
Gospels.

Three works in conversation with biblical narrative, through the frame of neurodivergent experience. Literary nonfiction in the tradition of comparative theology and behavioral biblical reading — Kazantzakis, Saramago, Pullman, Crossan. Not a theological project. Not a personal claim. Pattern recognition as a literary tool.

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Start at the framing.

The project preface is what the three works depend on. It explains what the project is and isn't. It places the works inside their literary tradition. Read it before the works themselves if any of this is unfamiliar.

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2026 · Testimony

The NeuroSpicy Testament

First-person testimonies of seven minds that would not comply
Seven biblical figures speak in the first person, each through a contemporary diagnostic frame. Jesus on autism. Moses on ADHD and anxiety. Joshua on OCD. Saul on bipolar I. Haman on NPD. Rachel on BPD. The seventh testimony belongs to the reader.
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2026 · Behavioral analysis

Jesus Was Neurospicy

A behavioral reading of the Gospels through autistic patterns
Four behavioral patterns the Gospels record consistently — pattern-recognition as compulsion, literal interpretation of symbolic performance, sensory and proximity behavior, unfiltered disclosure — paired with the same patterns in contemporary autistic life.
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2026 · Comparative theology

Temple and the Skool

Josh, Sol, and the money changers — by Harrison Shaw / Josh Wolf
A comparative theology of the Temple money changers and a modern paid neurodivergent community. Argues that the same exchange-table mechanism appears whenever belonging is sold as a commodity.
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Music

Wolf
and the Machine.

The musical work belongs to the same mythologizing project as the Gospels above. I Am Joshua released July 4, 2025 — months before this site existed. Two more albums are in active composition: Salt, White Shell and The NeuroSpicy Gospels (album). Track previews, streaming links, and the full story behind the work live on the dedicated music page.

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Music — Wolf and the Machine

I Am Joshua + work in progress
The full album, the back-story, the two albums coming next, and 30-second Apple Music previews of every track on I Am Joshua. No sign-in required.
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Fiction

Stories.

One piece of fiction so far. More may come.

2026 · Short fiction

The Conch

A story of what came after the island
A work of fiction. Ralph survived Lord of the Flies. Thirty years later, he built a community. This is the story of what he never told anyone. Twelve chapters. The last three shrink as the story disappears.
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Letter

A letter,
explaining a name.

One published letter that frames the use of a pen name across a portion of this work.

2026 · Letter

The Icarus Letter

Why this work is published under a pen name
A letter explaining the use of the Harrison Shaw pen name across a portion of the writing on this site, and what publishing under one's own name costs in a small-platform information environment.
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