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I'm Ellis Nye, and I'm a sci-fi and fantasy writer, with occasional elements of historical fiction, horror, and romance. Right now, I'm focusing on short stories.
Five of my short stories are available to read:
Free:
The Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest: SciFi. A story about love and community in the midst of an apocalypse of planned obsolescence, framed as an obituary. You can go to this page to buy the entire issue, read the story for free here (updated version!), or listen to it for free here. You can find a brief review of the story here.
Invasibility: SciFi. Wouldn't it be funny if someone was out killing invasive plants in the woods and a space alien rocked up and asked them what they were doing? You can download a compilation of Worlds of Possibility stories here for free; "Invasibility" is towards the end.
Tuesday: SciFi. A dying soldier reflects on his relationship with the alien he's bonded to. You can go to this page to buy the entire issue or read the story for free here. You can find a brief review of the story here.
Purchase Required:
Shelf-stable: SciFi. In a transitional post-post-apocalypse, Ada dreads the arrival of the witch who regularly visits her town. You can buy the issue of Solarpunk Magazine (@solarpunkmagazine on here) that it appears in here.
Five Books Unreturned When the Library Vanished: Fantasy. An authoritarian regime is writing certain books out of existence. You can buy the issue of NonBinary Review that it appears in here, and if you scroll down to my name in the list of authors you can read an interview with me.
I write:
Retellings--mythology, fairy tales, folklore, ballads, classic lit, and more
Small, quiet stories happening in the middle of the action
Dialogue-heavy stories
"Found fiction" (Archive of the Odd introduced me to this term and I love it!)
Disabled characters
Queer characters
Stuff that I hope makes you go "wait that was kind of fucked up" half an hour after reading it
Stuff that makes me cry
Stories that did, actually, come to me in a dream
Gross stuff
I'm very into worldbuilding, but my current focus on short stories tends to limit me there somewhat. I do plan to go back to writing novels, with an eventual focus on getting published, but that's not in the cards right now.
I also have a Bluesky with this same username.

















