N.R. Thomas

Memoirist. Essayist. Narrative Architect.

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I write from the fault lines where certainty collapses.

My work lives in the tension between experience and meaning—not to inspire or soothe, but to interrogate the spaces we’re taught to avoid. I’m drawn to what happens when systems built to heal cause harm, when stories meant to uplift actually conceal, when identity refuses reassembly and language starts to splinter.


CURRENT WORKS

TRANSIENT

A literary memoir chronicling cycles of meth addiction, psychosis, and fragile recovery.

Transient explores how desire, identity, and perception are shaped—and ultimately warped—by long-term stimulant use. It confronts the myth of linear recovery, the seductive lie of redemption, and the systems of surveillance embedded in both addiction and sobriety.

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ANALYSIS PARALYSIS

Where Transient immerses the reader in lived experience, this essay collection steps back to dissect the cultural myths, institutional mechanisms, and philosophical scaffolding that shape addiction narratives.

These essays don’t offer closure. They expose the illusions we’re conditioned to accept around healing, identity, and survival.

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METHOD / APPROACH

I approach language as a scalpel, not a salve. My writing doesn’t seek to resolve—it cuts, exposes, holds the wound open long enough to look inside. I believe the most honest intellectual position is interrogation, not conclusion.

When cultural narratives become too seamless, I write into the abrasions. When institutions demand wellness performances, I document the cost of that compliance.

These aren’t stories for polite applause.

They’re ruptures—crafted to linger.

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About Me

I write at the intersection of experience and interrogation. My work examines the architecture of what breaks us—and what remains.

My memoir Transient explores how identity, perception, and reality fracture and reform, while my essay collection Analysis Paralysis dissects the cultural myths and institutional structures that shape these experiences.

Currently seeking representation.