David Yerks-Young writes fiction that refuses to follow the expected path. Whether exploring historical events, religion, philosophy, mythology, or the supernatural, he finds the twist — the darker angle, the hidden truth, the version of the story that makes readers question everything they thought they knew. Growing up as “the weird kid” in a village in New York with an overactive imagination, he learned early that the world wasn’t always ready for the stories in his head. A school guidance counselor once told him not to pursue writing. Decades later, he finally stopped listening. Wordplay is his tool, your mind is his playground, and he loves taking readers somewhere unexpected — sometimes even a reckoning… or is it wreckoning? His genre-defying work blends elements that shouldn’t work together but somehow do, from Puritanical curses to ancient beliefs reborn in modern settings. David Yerks-Young crafts stories where nothing is quite what it seems — proving the weird kid was right all along.