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The Creative Processing · Show, Don't Tell

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. A Psychosocial Profile — a behavioral character study. The Icarus Letter. The body of work that came out of the experience, made through story instead of argument. Show, don't tell.

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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Character study

A Psychosocial
Profile.

A behavioral profile of one community founder, drawn from documented correspondence and public communications, evaluated against the DSM-5 criteria for narcissistic personality disorder. The form is clinical; the project is character study. It sits in Creative Processing because the work is recognizing a pattern by writing it down.

2026 · DSM-5 character study

A Psychosocial Profile

Documented behavior, evaluated against DSM-5 criteria
Citations and evidence tables included. The longest of the analytical works on this site, and the one most explicitly built as a piece of literary character-rendering — using the DSM-5 as the framing device the way a novelist uses a setting.
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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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