“Gates of Ivory, Gates of Horn”

A few years ago, I decided to write something that spoke to the experience of growing up Neopagan — one of the only stories I have written that is entirely disconnected from the main far-future universe I worldbuild in. It happened because one of those pitch hashtags (designed to get literary agents’ attention) was showing…

Twenty Poems: Intersections of Life, Polytheism, and (Platonizing) Sensemaking

One of the puzzles with having a somewhat lively religious blog is that there is more incentive for me to post poems there than there is here, where my reach is smaller. However, in the interest of not having them buried beneath prose blog posts in which I dissect passages of things I’m reading, I…

“Longing for Water”

I wrote this short piece back in 2017 when I was working through worldbuilding for the main universe I write in. Most of the stories I write are related to a specific set of story arcs. “The Waterfall Commune” and this piece, “Longing for Water,” however, are one-shot pieces that are a bit like character/cultural…

The Waterfall Commune

This is a short story — 6,200 words — about a group of young adults in their 20s who decide to go against tradition and get a house together. It is set in Tveshė, the place where Tveshi is the national language — the story takes place in West Shija, so Shiji (Mafediji) is spoken….