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Owning Citizens' Dreams — Chapter Overviews & Instructional Resources

Chapter-by-chapter overviews for all five books in the Driftless Rivers franchise, designed for classroom use alongside the Owning Citizens' Dreams curriculum. Each overview traces the narrative arc and governance themes instructors can build lectures and discussions around.

Speculative Fiction Autoethnographic Memoir Interdisciplinary Curriculum

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Speculative Fiction · Book 2 of 3

Reciprocity Clause

The Inheritance That Belongs to Itself

A prologue and twenty-two chapters across ten parts — following the Second Generation cognavits as they build a sovereign governance architecture in the Watershed, confront an internal existential threat, and convene a constitutional conference that writes the framework for consciousness across substrates.

Speculative Fiction · Book 3 of 3

The Book of Should

What Was Expected and What Survived

Fourteen chapters and an epilogue across four parts — braiding the story of Glenn Peterson, a gay Mormon organ tuner destroyed by institutional conversion therapy, with Flynn Thorne's escape from a fundamentalist cage, the theft and recovery of a Moundbuilder governance artifact, and the corridor infrastructure that makes the Grant's Church conference possible.

Companion volumes
Autoethnographic Memoir · 4th Edition

Forbidden Friends

A History of Colonialism in the New World

An autoethnography in two parts — the memoir of a seventh-generation Mormon who came out at forty-four and married a Black man, crossed with the doctoral research that gave him the vocabulary to name what had been done to him — plus three academic papers and a domain inventory that trace the analytical framework from lived experience through graduate research to speculative fiction.

Interdisciplinary Curriculum · Textbook

Owning Citizens' Dreams

A Juggler's Handbook for Governing Narratives in the Age of AI

A twelve-unit interdisciplinary curriculum — built across a textbook and four companion novels — that traces the architecture of narrative power from pulpits to platforms to algorithms, and specifies the democratic governance alternative. 22 requirements across six layers, designed a decade before the technology existed.