Stories By Ell
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Known as @arbiter.of.oddities in my RVA community 👻 I'm a writer of curious things, mostly fiction with ample dashes of magic, history, and commentary, stirred to taste🍸 Proud defender of genre fiction ⚔️ Be kind, do crime, keep reading📚
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The Namesake
Deep in the crags of the High Mountains (yes, reader, the mapmaker who’d first drawn them had been grossly underpaid), a cavern the size of a city was hidden. For half a century now, its occupants had continued deepening the magic that kept it secret, and that kept them secret, from the prying eyes of the outside world.
By Stories By Ell3 years ago in Fiction
The Swamps
“Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say.” It’s a line travelers use to make themselves feel daring, a ghost story to frighten neighbors already too fearful to venture off their home planets. But for those that dwell in the vacuum itself, adrift in the vastness, the question of who can hear us bears little relevance. We know better than to think that anyone is listening.
By Stories By Ell4 years ago in Fiction
The House Arcane
So much talent. The words seeped through Duncan’s mind, a whisper no one else could hear. The party around him buzzed, tasseled caps and shapeless gowns discarded on every available surface in the great hall. Expensive gin flowed from the open bar into grinning mouths, pulsing through the throng of graduates—the beating heart of the Monmouth Architectural Academy.
By Stories By Ell4 years ago in Fiction
Now Hiring
Three to five years of work experience in a related field required. The lethal phrase mocks me from the very, very bottom of the webpage. Hastily, I scroll back to the top, wondering if I’d misread the job listing. I hadn’t: Junior Research Assistant, Entry Level, it claims.
By Stories By Ell4 years ago in Fiction
