L. C. Dialogos

I write dark psychological fiction about identity crisis and emotional numbness, and about the specific anxiety of performing a self you are no longer sure exists.

I have AuDHD and lexical-gustatory synesthesia. The latter is a rare form of synesthesia where spoken and written language, as well as certain colors and emotions, triggers an automatic and highly consistent taste or smell. These flavors are often experienced as a complex mixture of temperature and texture, and sometimes as a profoundly vivid memory. I also experience aphantasia, along with several other neurodivergent traits that I infuse into the characters I write. ...there is a piece of me in every single one of them.

I went looking, for years, for autistic interiority written from the inside: the actual architecture of the cognition, rather than a view of it from outside, or an arc about overcoming it. In noir, specifically, I couldn't find it at all. So I wrote the book I was looking for.

Body horror, dissociative logic, cerebral elements, and sardonic wit abound in my writing. Underneath it all lies actual research, anthropology and neurology and the biology of behavior, used less like a citation and more like a skeletal structure. My knowledge of psychological frameworks tends to lend itself well to the craft...

My fiction lives inside neurodivergent cognition and sensory realism, and inside the tension between performance and authenticity. Because identity, to me, was never fixed. It is constructed. Rehearsed. Inherited. Biologically constrained. And perpetually unstable.

I am also a Buddhist chaplain, and a speaker and educator. My clinical writing has appeared in Psychotherapy Networker (September/October 2026).

I hope you enjoy Happiness Unintentional as much as I enjoyed the absolute pleasure of tasting the words.