Voracity

1.3 For Yuri, I Sell My Soul to Aliens

Mere seconds after becoming a witch and I’m already burning alive. I would call it just my luck, but this is excessive even for me.

Bright green fire erupts spontaneously and swirls around ...

1.2 For Yuri, I Sell My Soul to Aliens

Agreeing immediately would make me come off as desperate, which I am and it probably knows I am, but it’s bad form to admit that.

I do really, really want to become a witch. It’s exciting...

1.1 For Yuri, I Sell My Soul to Aliens

It was my evilest, cleverest, wickedest scheme yet, and I almost believed it wouldn’t fail.

Of course, my evil scheme was what more grounded commentators might call “sharing a hobby with ...

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

Alice steps through the mirror and wakes up on an autopsy table in a sterile workshop.

She’s seen this room before, in her visions, but it’s not really the same room. She pushes herself o...

Garden of Memories X

I’ve seen the inside of this tower before.

It’s a strange revelation. At first I think of the tower from one of Thalia’s stories, but that’s not where I’m remembering this from. I r...

NEWS: Past and Future Plans

Hello! It's time for another news update as we head into the very end of Feast or Famine. After the chapter that was just posted, there are only two more chapters left in the entirety of the story...

Garden of Memories IX

Ash falls and blood rains over the ruins of Fata Morgana.

The last war has already ended as we pick our way through the hole in the city wall. The air is stagnant with death. Dark clouds hang...

Garden of Memories VIII

I smash the clay heart that used to be a sin eater and scatter the shards with my feet. The catharsis isn’t quite as satisfying as I’d hoped, but it’s still pleasant to consider how far I’v...

Garden of Memories VII

“We have to save Reska.”

Thalia rolls her eyes at my blurted declaration. “Be serious. We’re not really going to have this argument, are we?”

“Why shouldn’t we?”

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Garden of Memories VI

My attempt to barrel on without thinking about what I just went through is, surprising no one, a huge failure. The sullen silence just gives my brain more chances to barrage me with memory and emot...

Garden of Memories V

With our party gathered and the world beginning to collapse, we venture forth on the road to the glass tower.

I would have liked to get there by any means other than walking, but we have litt...

Garden of Memories IV

Exhaustion and invigoration war within my soul.

I am human and monster, demon and divine. I am the Intercessor. I am the Red Queen. I am Morgan, Malice, and Maven. I am Mordred, Kiana, and Ve...

Act Zero: Intercessor & Adversary (3/3)

The next loop of the cycle was another Veseryn world. In a world full of magic, her only power was the ability to usurp control of magic items. The start of her story was structured to mirror a pre...

Act Zero: Intercessor & Adversary (2/3)

Prevara and I each had our part to play in Melpomene’s script. Prevara nudged Kiana from afar and set itself up as the monster behind every mystery. I took the closer role, playing the part of he...

Act Zero: Intercessor & Adversary (1/3)

Once upon a time, and then again and again and again, a bitter and lonely woman cut a piece of herself and named it. I was the first.

Senses came to me in waves. Taste and smell brought the i...

Act Zero: The Girl Who Stood Alone

Once upon a time, our Creator played a new kind of game. All the pieces had been seen before, but never so many of them brought together. From the very beginning, I knew this was my chance.

T...

Act Zero: The Girl Without a Name

Once upon a time, there was a stupid girl who tried to be clever. It cost her everything.

Veseryn was born to a world of countless secrets and terrible powers, and she was born to nothing. No...

Act Zero: The Girl in the Tower

FEAST OR FAMINE

ACT ZERO

Allow me to set the stage, one final time, as the curtains rise on a bonfire soon to blaze.

THE GIRL IN THE TOWER

Once upon a ti...

Still Alive

Still struggling. My sincerest thanks to everyone who's stayed with me. I appreciate all of you more than I can say. Writer's block has kept being brutal, but, I'm making a tiny bit of progress. Fo...

Interlude: Once & Future IV

I leave Achaia to her suffering, my poison coursing through her veins as my shadow binds her limbs, and I turn to face the man who caused me eighteen months of grief.

Time and emotion are exc...

Interlude: Once & Future III

Eighteen months, hundreds of hours of labor, and seven billion souls. That’s what it cost me to get back to the Labyrinth. That was the price of my return.

It should feel like triumph, so w...

Interlude: Once & Future II

I am haunted and I am ruined. This I know.

In weary days beneath a sunlit sky I toil against a world that hates my breath and footsteps. You do not belong here, the world tells me, a...

Interlude: Once & Future I

CONTENT WARNING: This chapter contains graphic and depiction of suicidal ideation and self-harm. I am not exaggerating when I call it graphic. Viewer sensibility will determine whether it is active...

Garden of Memories III

Two monsters test their mettle within a city that doesn’t exist. Flagstones crack, the air shudders, and shadows thicken. And I, unharmed and harmless, vulnerable and frail, am left with thoughts...

Schedule Update (not a chapter)

Hi there. I already posted about this on my Discord, but since there might be some of you who aren't on there, I figured I should post it here as well to keep everyone in the loop:

So! It's ...

book 3 chapter 2

I stare at my phantom doppelganger and a question tumbles from my lips, slipping out without thought at the shock of her visage. I ask her, “Are you real?”

The words come out smothered an...

book 3 chapter 1

A/n: still working on arc titles and intro quotes but i wanted to actually put readable words in front of you

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When I was a little girl, yearning but yet unbroken, all I wanted was t...

Update!

Hello! This has been a very weird and rough year, but I *am* writing again. I'm working on the first chapter of book 3, which I was hoping to have done by now but which *will* be done sometime with...

Update

Hello! Plotting out some things. Book 3 is not starting any time soon, but I'm hoping to do a little miniseries in the hiatus, something about novella length following the journey of the demon Sami...

not a chapter, but a chapter?

so today's chapter went up on rr https://www.royalroad.com/fict...