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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. This is the body of work that came out of the experience, and I made it through story instead of argument. Show, don't tell.

The byline

Who is
Harrison Shaw.

Harrison Shaw is me, Josh Wolf.

Harrison is my father's last name. Shaw comes from the X-Men.

A lot of autistic kids grew up on those comics, because the premise was us: people born different and hated for it, and one school where being different got you in. The comics had a second house for the gifted, too. The Hellfire Club had a membership list and a man named Sebastian Shaw who ran it like the business it was. It took a while to understand why the writers kept those two houses so close together.

Thirty years in, the writers told the other story. Before the team everyone knows, Xavier sent four half-trained students on a mission and lost them. One was Cyclops's brother. Xavier went into Cyclops's mind and took out the memory that they had ever been there. Nobody asked about the missing students, because nobody remembered there was anyone to ask about.

I found a professor's haven once, and for a while it was everything the comics promised. Then I was one of the students who went missing from it. Nobody died. We stopped being mentioned, and the people still inside learned not to ask.

The door was open to anyone in the world except me, so one night I became someone else and walked through it. It didn't last, and I don't recommend it.

I kept the name. The stories filed under it were written by the man who needed it.

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). This is not a theological project, and it is not a personal claim. I'm using pattern recognition as a literary tool.

Read the project preface first
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. Each is 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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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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Songs from before the name

Before
Harrison.

These came first. I Am Joshua, by Wolf and the Machine, was released July 4, 2025. There was no pen name yet and nothing to stand behind, so the songs went out under mine. Two more albums are in active composition: Salt, White Shell and The NeuroSpicy Gospels (album).

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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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