Fiction
Legend of Yumetoca – (not yet live)
Shynnoc was left as a baby on the steps of the Temple of Yumetoca just after she was born, likely due to the fact of her undeveloped right arm. Found and adopted by the monk Fu-weh, Shynnoc was raised to observe and obey the Edicts of the Temple as she served both it and the surrounding city of Eng’ha. However, as she has grown older, she has begun to question several of their seemingly arbitrary rules. Why are only the Temple Elders allowed to cultivate and consume the mystical Gift of Yumetoca when it grows freely in the depths of the surrounding forest? What exactly are the mysterious glowing orbs of amlyrite and why is it forbidden to possess or even to touch it? Who exactly were the Ancients and why is the study of their technology and history discouraged? Legend of Yumetoca is a tale of a city of anthropomorphic animals and the religion of their fungal deity.
Genre: fantasy, science-fiction.
Update Target: first week monthly.
Lucid Mære – (not yet live)
Ashlyn Connor wakes up on the floor of the Lakeside Mall parking garage with a splitting headache and her car missing. More than that, the parking garage seems to be completely empty and the world has an otherworldly greenish cast to it. Ashlyn is immediately aware that something is very wrong, but she cannot seem to rouse herself from this dream, if it even is a dream. Without knowing what else to do, she heads on foot towards her apartment. Over the course of this tale, Ashlyn learns that she has come to be in the Wyrdlands, a parallel dimension of reality fueled by the darkest aspects of human imagination and therefore inhabited by strange creatures and horrific monsters. She must gain allies among the nightmarish inhabitants of this realm in her quest to learn more about her situation and to find a way to somehow return to her own reality.
Genre: suspense, supernatural horror.
Update Target: second week monthly.
The Preternatural Patient – (not yet live)
Dr. Samantha Parker, a former criminal profiler for the Atlanta FBI, had hoped that moving to New Orleans would be a fresh start after leaving the Bureau. She took a job working as a consulting psychologist for the NOPD and felt content that the old horrors of trying to get inside the heads of depraved serial killers and ruthless crime lords would be behind her. However, the past has a way of not staying dead for Samantha. The subject of one of her old cases, a dangerous criminal presumed dead, shows up on her doorstep one night with an unusual offer she finds she cannot refuse.
Genre: mystery.
Update Target: third week monthly.
Crimson Gods – (not yet live)
Andrea Walker is a college student pursuing a Psychology degree who is fascinated by the subject of lucid dreaming. As she improves her skill at controlling her dreams, she begins to notice the same alien entity observing her during them, present from night to night. However, whenever Andrea gets close, the entity vanishes. After several nights of this, Andrea awakens to find the alien very real and very much in her room. The alien, who calls itself Al-tul of the Nahu’tul, commends her on her proficiency in manipulating the Fifth Dimension (consciousness) within her dreams and requests her presence aboard their ship in order that the Nahu’tul may study her abilities. Andrea’s excitement and wonder at these fascinating aliens and their technology gradually turns to shock and dread, not only at the prospect that she may not truly be free to leave at any time but also at what the Nahu’tul have decided to provide for her “enrichment”.
Genre: science fiction thriller.
Update Target: fourth week monthly.
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Non-Fiction Short Essays
The Dynamism of Joy, The Stasis of Peace
Sauvryn Arts • Tara Carter 