Tag: originals

  • The Duchesses’ Gifts (Original)

    The Duchesses’ Gifts (Original)

    A serial with a troubled development history, TDG is about a trio of girls coming of age in a colony that has lost touch with Earth. These girls have unique gifts that nobody understands yet. Even I don’t understand all of it, I just wrote the daily serial chapters. It leaves off abruptly – I…

  • City of Banners (Original)

    City of Banners (Original)

    The City of Banners is a classic drawer novel, only without the being-written part. I have many jewel-toned entries into this setting and only one that stands as a proper story. I give this one to you: Shai, the City of Banners, and her citizens. It’s called The Courtship of Oroma Liathen. (image from pixcrafter)…

  • Found Wanting (Original)

    Found Wanting (Original)

    Found Wanting was my continuation of 1984, set in postapocalyptic Boston. It followed Andrew Hsu, a Thought Cop newly deprived of Party, and Cassandra Montgomery, a teenager being stifled by protective survivors. I have tried to make this a novel and I’ve tried to make this a short story, but it never came together. I…

  • Canon in T (original) 1999-2024

    Canon in T (original) 1999-2024

    (art by kabeone!) Canon in T is my favorite Bright novel. It is about a girl dealing with research, power, and love while mired in the politics of a religious order that has no room for her. It was informed by my experience in a male-dominated profession, but I never had a Phinean Draconis. Tarina…

  • Lords of the Pha (Original) 2019

    Lords of the Pha (Original) 2019

    The Pha were a Roger Zelazny-inspired setting of incestuous lords taking the power of ancestral regalia and thinking they’re all that. They are not invulnerable. The core piece is The Pha Hunt, about one of those things that works to make them know they are not invulnerable. The cousins must gather, for once, and deal…

  • The Unwitting Sorceress (Original) 2014

    Two spoiled nobles squabble over the proper use of magic in the shadow of a war. Ettael and Setua might just be my favorite couple, from childhood antagonists to very adult arguers. TUS is a novel about responsibility, about unwanted gifts and the annoyingly redemptive power of loyalty built on common ground. This is the…

  • Tatters (original) (2024-2025)

    Tatters! I’m almost done!  Tatters is a triptych about a crime lord, a cop, and a student, pursuing relationships in the empath-haunted Photia City. It is a romance about feelings and corruption and failure to heal.  I really love this setting, a nighttime gaslamp with psychic powers. The ending of Tatters, due within weeks, sets…