Lane von Herzen: The Genetic Crimes of Brandan Pesa and Tom Lyons

My Third Novel's Conclusion, My Heartbreak

My heart begins to break when I think about completing this particular book -- because this narrative has sustained me like no other story I've known. It's both more personal and more universal than my other works. But beyond memory and archetype, it's a cri-de-coeur about needing to become the person one is destined to be. And in the writing, I have met my own life's work, my own fated journey -- having the sense all the while that the pages are suffused with a resonance, an energy, an electrified field that defies explanation. Writers hope and pray to be overtaken by a work in this way -- to be conscripted into passionate service of a profound story. To experience it even once in a lifetime seems a great privilege. I still have several months before this novel is complete, and this constitutes my reprieve. Because I'm not ready for the beauty to end.

Thursday, July 16, 2026

The Genetic Crimes of Brandan Pesa and Tom Lyons

OIG Hotline, this is to request that your Office now prioritizes the prosecution of the theft of my genetic information by Brandan Pesa and Tom Lyons, both of whom are reported to have had one or more children bearing my genetic information without my knowledge or consent.

While I cannot accept a settlement relating to this theft due to the fact that I do not acquiesce to its commission, I can require that any and all children of these men, and the children of any others involved, co-opting my genetic information now receive replacement of any and all genetic material that belongs to me or to my close relatives.

Furthermore, I can request that their genetics be regularly and routinely reassessed to ensure that they bear no relationship to me whatsoever and that they will not do so in the future.

Thank you for your rigorous pursuit of this important violation of my human rights.

I must comment at this time that children are not a lottery ticket. They are not a tool of misappropriation. They are not pawns, mannequins, puppets, automatons, legacies or de facto heirs.

It may not be fair that the genetic crimes of all of the men involved, and Brandan Pesa and Tom Lyons chief among them, are visited upon their children in the form of their altered genetic identities. But it is now necessary given the egregious and ongoing violations of my sovereignty and my human rights in this circumstance alone.

I will appreciate your most stalwart assertion in reclaiming my rights in this matter.

Thank you for your insistence that the abuses perpetrated by Brandan Pesa and Tom Lyons against me in this regard be immediately and permanently corrected.

Most sincerely,