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How to get out of block and into a daily habit of creation
Fiction (New!)

Queer, contemporary dragon romance with a pinch of political mayhem
Series: Among the Mythos
SERIES: AMONG THE MYTHOS

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All Kate wants is to get away from the magic, the mayhem, and the unending war. Then someone sends her a baby dragon in a box.

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Grey is a runaway Fey prince, fooling around in New York, content to be selfish… until a monster from his nightmares comes to call.

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Katie ran from the magical world years ago. She never planned on being dragged back in by a prophesying clamshell.

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Sarah built her life to stay safe in spite of her past. Then a dragon moves into town and throws all her careful plans in the fire.

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Vampire family drama, gruesome prophecies, and the power of choice come together in a crash so wild it will change the world.

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He’s an old-fashioned detective in a time rocked by the recent emergence of magic, and he always closes the case.

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The world is ending. Amber is alone. In the middle of this mess, what difference could her choices make? As it turns out, all the difference in the world.

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Solomon Iskinder has a plan: Force adaptation so humans survive the climatomagical apocalypse. He has no idea how big a can of worms he’s just opened.

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There’s one simple rule to surviving here: you don’t go in the water. You don’t touch it. If you do, it gets you, drags you down, and you’re gone.

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He was designed to be infectious and designed to be violent, but his creators forgot one thing: they forgot to remove his soul.

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Anyone who can see souls could tell you: Alex shouldn’t exist. Then again, neither should most things from Dreams.

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They come then, big and round like still pools of water: the green, the roots, creeping toward the ruination you’ve made.
Short Stories
Note: This page is heavily under construction! I’m reworking all my short stories, and re-posting them here when they’re finished.
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Contents By Topic
- Dr. Ranier Blood’s Arc
- Stories of the Night Children
- Stories of the Fey
- Stories of Psychopomps
- Stories of The Sundered
- Others Among the Mythos
Dr. Ranier Blood’s Arc

Court-appointed therapy doesn’t go quite the way Rapunzel thought it would.
Re: Dr. Ranier Blood; The KinRead Now

Rumors of her appear in the news, but who can credit tales of a pale little girl freezing things with a single, bloodied touch?
Re: Dr. Ranier Blood; The KinRead Now

“This is your test,” she says, and to my dismay, her voice carries the tinny echo of magic, a compelling power.
Not the usual conversation one has upon entering a magical psychologist’s office.
Re: Dr. Ranier Blood; The KinRead Now
Stories of the Night Children

Notte thought to hide from the world, to punish himself by being alone.
The world – including a power-hungry emperor – has other ideas.
Re: Notte; Ahmose; The Ever-Dying; The Night-ChildrenRead Now

He’d always painted what he saw; these visions pushed him, bled out his eyes, and the only cure for augural blindness was to splatter it out in colors, shapes, forms.
Re: Jonathan; Seishirou; Ravena; Notte; The Night-ChildrenRead Now

Years ago, Seishirou chose to disobey his maker for the sake of love. Years ago, Seishirou’s love knew exactly how it would play out. Today, the bill comes due – but that isn’t the end of his story.
Re: Seishirou; Ravena; Jonathan; NotteRead Now

He got away with it all. In the end, it was the damned cows that caught him.
Re: Terrance; Notte; The Night-ChildrenRead Now

He was the assassin, the executioner, the bringer of death for the Blood King. After all, Terrance understood death better than most.
Re: Terrance; Notte; The Night-ChildrenRead Now

I can see the life leave you.w
You died for nothing.
Re: Terrance; Notte; The Night-ChildrenRead Now

“It is always time for extinction,” he says, but drops his gaze. And I know that for a time, a short time, a too-brief pause, I’ve won.
Re: The Guardians; The Night-Children; Notte; AdamRead Now

Flappers. Vampires. A thug who stole a necklace and a speak-easy with Jazz to die for.
Re: Salome; Notte; the Night-ChildrenRead Now

He can’t stop killing. He can’t be killed. After the events of Half-Shell Prophecies, Joshua finds himself adrift – and in the grip of the Beast.
Re: Joshua Run; Notte; the Night-ChildrenRead Now

Strange children. Strange costumes. A strange night, all around, with an unexpected party.
Re: Joshua Run; Notte; Terrance; Alex; Grey; Jonathan Sumeragi; the Night-Children; the Fey; the Kin; the Guardians; the Ever-DyingRead Now

I do not wish to be be the Blood King, Nox Aeterna, Lord of the Night Whispers. I wish to simply be Night, bearing the burden for nobody – alone, communing with the wind and underestimating the freedom that comes from loneliness. But these are selfish thoughts, and that is not my role.
Re: The Night-Children; Notte; Terrance; The Ever-DyingRead Now

He was the most amazing man she’d ever seen—the only man, too, who showed no fear in the face of all that was here.
Re: The Night-Children; Notte; Ravenna; The Ever-Dying; Az’kabekRead Now

Just the aftermath of a strange day, a strange letter, and some under-the-table un-wisdom.
Re: The Night-Children; Notte; The Hush; Ramses Al-Benumm tá Oman,Read Now

Ancient vampire Notte has tea with a friend right in the middle of some… family business. Awkward!
Re: The Night-Children; Notte; Robin GoodfellowRead Now

Joshua Run is safe now, thanks to Notte – but saying goodbye to his former life is harder than saying goodbye to his humanity.
Re: The Night-Children; Notte; Joshua RunRead Now
Stories About the Fey

The damned Throne takes my magic, stealing every last drop from birth to death. Rebellion is not rewarded, not even when you’re the heir.
Re: Grey; Mab; The Fey; The ThroneRead Now

Before me stands the bedraggled crown prince of the Unseelie Fey. I pretend I do not see how desperately he hoped I’d invite him, and he pretends that he does not have bits of twig sticking out of his hair.
Re: Grey; Notte; The Fey; Terrance; The Night-ChildrenRead Now

Aiden smiled. “What can I do for you, my friend?” he said, and waggled a finger. “Be sure, it will cost you.”
No, It wouldn’t.
Re: The Fey; AidenRead Now

A fascination with human Halloween. A terrible destiny. A strange night of monsters, magic, and too much candy.
Re: The Fey; Grey; Terrance; Marshall; The Night-Children; Matt; the DarknessRead Now

Someday, he’d just leave. Nobody would call him prince, or Highness, or expect him to do anything miraculous. Someday could not come soon enough.
Re: The Fey; Grey;Read Now

It is as if each generation bled, leaked ink or paint or power. Or perhaps it is something else that has left them.
Re: The Fey; Grey; Owen; the Throne; ManRead Now

A sleep-deprived elf prince. A doctor who’s trying. Weird physical therapy. Not everyone is as good at helping the Mythos as Ranier Blood…
Re: The Fey; Grey; Robert Moore;Read Now

A Fey thief, down on his luck and with a heavy debt to pay. A sentient throne guarding the Unseelie treasure. What could go wrong?
Re: The Fey; Grey; The Throne; TheronRead Now
Stories of Psychopomps

The soul had been flayed, shredded into suffering ribbons, and Death had to think carefully about how to handle it right.
Re: Hades; DisRead Now

Now, he knew what this place held. Monsters, magic leaves, things all meant to stop him and eat him and stop him and hurt him, and he wouldn’t be fooled again.
Re: Red; The Ever-DyingRead Now

“You eat it,” said the Observer in that tone that could either be encouraging or mocking.
“Why?” said Death, and picked up a sausage. Grease oozed between his fingers and ran down his thumb.
Re: Hades; the Observer; DisRead Now

She’d won. She’d won! He had got it wrong, but she’d won. No way was she going to pass up collecting. Dis was nothing if not thorough.
Re: Dis; CronosRead Now
Stories of The Sundered

We were tasked with stopping the end of the world, but it’s too late for that. So, failing that, we are tasked with preserving what remains.
Easier said than done.
Re: The Sundered; Jason Iskinder; Sundered Ones;Read Now

“Take care of your brother.”
He tried.
Re: The Sundered; Demos; TomasRead Now

She understood why she’d been chosen. That didn’t make it easy.
Re: The Sundered; Read Now

Soon, I’ll have enough, and I can step out of this idiot game and I swear, I swear, no one is ever going to touch me again.
Re: The Sundered; KaiaRead Now

Harry has some important childhood memories. He does not know some of them were altered.
Re: The Sundered; Harry Iskinder; AakeshRead Now

Just a bit of flash fiction for a delightful artist, Sixelona, who drew Gorish first.
Re: The Sundered; Harry Iskinder; AakeshRead Now

Flash fiction: Aakesh’s POV.
Re: The Sundered; Harry Iskinder; AakeshRead Now

A slightly longer version of Aakesh’s POV.
Re: The Sundered; Harry Iskinder; AakeshRead Now

Jason Iskinder’s Hope of Humanity was never the only ship, even if his arrogance made it sound that way. Iskinder’s people met the Sundered Ones.
Re: The Ever-Dying; Aadhvitha JahnsRead Now

It is as if each generation bled, leaked ink or paint or power. Or perhaps it is something else that has left them.
Re: The Sundered; the Ever-Dying; Jason Iskinder; Aakesh; Harry Iskinder Read Now
Others Among the Mythos

A pretty lady always knows how to smile. (Flash fiction: 240 words)
Re: Flash Fiction; The Ever-Dying; KalarastriRead Now

Punish me, will you? Two can play this game. (Flash Fiction)
Re: RandomRead Now

Just a story about magic, cereal boxes, and long-lost Mesoamerica gods. No, who am I kidding? It’s about a badass convenience store manager with a taser.
Re: The Ever-Dying; RandomRead Now

The moths came when you left. (Flash Fiction)
Re: RandomRead Now

Ghosts don’t mean to scare you. They just want you to know: it’s not over when the fat lady sings. (Free-form poem.)
Re: RandomRead Now

Once upon a time, there was a hedgehog who thought he was a fairy.
Re: RandomRead Now

One thing for sure: this had absolutely nothing to do with Alighieri.
Re: RandomRead Now

Sometimes, ordinary folk don’t get happy endings when the world goes wrong. But that doesn’t mean they have no choice.
Re: The Ever-DyingRead Now

This is about as close to loving a human as a little Dream can ever come.
Re: The DreamRead Now

The dreams are the same. Merged, always, with memories congealing and woven thick, tightening into the weft and warp of me.
Re: The Ever-Dying; Solomon IskinderRead Now

Bran the Crow King, a dark and powerful being of Darkness, ruminates to his newest lover about strange and intimate things.
Re: The Darkness; BranRead Now

One: give it back to its clan. Can’t do that? On to rule two. Written by Katie (and Suvi).
Re: The Darkness; Bran; the Ever-Dying; Katie Lin; SuviRead Now

Sometimes a single afternoon is enough to make up for a lifetime of bad decisions; at least, it comes close. This spoiler-free short story follows the last day of Tsehay, one of the People of the Sun.
Re: The Sun; TsehayRead Now

In The Most Important Word, we learn of portals offered by the Mythos to save human lives. Not all those portals led to good places.
Re: The Hush; the Ever-DyingRead Now

If you see him, don’t run. If you see him, look at his hands.
Re: RandomRead Now
More to come soon! I’m editing as quickly as I can. 🙂
More to come soon! I’m editing as quickly as I can. 🙂
