Fulcrum & Axis: recursive / literary / reflective / Southern / strange / emotionally honest / philosophically curious / atmospheric
AI & Process
Some of the work published through Fulcrum & Axis involves the use of artificial intelligence as part of the creative process.
I use AI the same way artists have historically used other tools: for brainstorming, structure, iteration, research, conversation, visual experimentation, and expanding creative possibility. The ideas, direction, emotional perspective, and final curation remain deeply human and personal.
Every project uses these tools differently. Some works rely on them heavily during development. Others barely at all.
What matters to me is not hiding the process, but being honest about it.
At its core, this site is still about storytelling, memory, place, grief, imagination, and the ongoing attempt to understand what it means to be human in a rapidly changing world.
About me
Frank M. Anderson —
Memoirist, novelist, archivist of the unseen
I’m based in Greenville, and most of what I write starts with real life.
Grief. Illness. Relationships. The moments that don’t resolve cleanly, or don’t make sense until much later—if they ever do.
Writing is how I try to understand those things.
Over time, that process has grown into something bigger. My work moves between memoir and fiction, but it all connects. The same ideas show up again and again, sometimes grounded in reality, sometimes expressed through something more abstract.
Every book I write—memoir, YA, horror, speculative fiction—comes back to the same question:
What do our stories do to us over time?
Because I’ve come to believe that the stories we tell ourselves don’t just describe our lives.
They shape the worlds we end up living in.
- Find my works at https://www.amazon.com/stores/Frank-M.-Anderson/author/B0F5WXRFT7
A commitment to innovation and storytelling
This site is part literary archive, part civic project, part ongoing experiment in understanding the worlds we build around ourselves.
Fulcrum & Axis Press houses my fiction, memoir, essays, and long-form creative work. Seen / Unseen Greenville explores the visible and invisible forces shaping the city I live in — its history, growth, contradictions, memory, and identity.
Some of the work here is grounded in lived experience. Some of it drifts into fiction, recursion, philosophy, horror, nostalgia, and the unreal. Most of it exists somewhere between observation and imagination.
Rather than separating those things completely, this site treats them as connected.
The real world.
The unreal.
And whatever exists beneath both.
This is not a finished archive.
It’s a living one.
Watch, Read, Listen
Multiple pathways.
Many Lives. One author.
Frank M. Anderson
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