Words, Words, Words

The company man requested the same costume every time. It was Evie’s favourite, which was a shame; the idea of having anything in common with the company man made her want to insert another stranglHer.

Moon, Sun, Stars by Issa

Stretches of time alone in the darkness above the earth weighed on me. He hadn’t come back. I wanted him there, next to me. I wanted to take the earth and crush it between my hands for stealing him away. But I couldn’t, because he loved it, and, I told myself, that his love for earth was his love for me. It was for me. It was supposed to be for me. It never felt like it was for me. I never wanted it. 

Sitting at 4.1k words, Moon, Sun, Stars is a short story centered around / based on the Filipino myth of Tungkung Langit and Alunsina, aka the creator of the world and his wife.

Featuring: a love that couldn't save itself, a ghost story, a creation myth, a silver comb, a golden crown, and a pearl necklace.

what if there was... another one

Saw this on Twitter. What 3 potions would you drink?

—about ME

I'm elena, or beaumont (he/she), and I'm reintroducing myself again! When I'm not disappearing for months at a time to be a college student, I write mostly adult litfic novels and short stories, but I dabble in playwriting and poetry.

some things I like to put in my work — lesbians, horrible relationships, weird povs, unlikeable protagonists, retellings, historical fiction, femme fatales and evil women, transgenderism, fabulism, freaks.

—my PROJECTS

[if you'd like to be on the taglist for any of these, drop me a line!]

PAINTED TYRANT - when a brutal and secretive 1920's mob boss is found dead in his office, his hedonistic and fatally dependent long-time lover and his business-partner wife must solve his murder and reckon with the collapse of an empire—over the course of a single summer night.

[if you like: unreliable narrators, codependency, lavender marriages, trans characters, weird throuples, the great gatsby, murder mystery dinner parties] [adult historical literary fiction, third person present]

EIDOLON - an early-nineteenth-century russian socialite renowned for her beauty is coached for marriage from birth by her controlling father, caught in a complicated relationship with her twin brother, married to a man who hates her, and ascending to the role of queen of society—while slowly embracing an extraordinary gift for getting what she wants.

[if you like: family trauma, femme fatales, twins, war and peace, non-linear narrative, retellings, villain origin stories, bisexuality] [adult historical literary fiction with fabulist elements, first person retrospective + second person present]

KITCHEN WINTER - two women in a failing marriage compete to destroy the lives of their new neighbors—a middle-aged lesbian couple and their teenage children—while they themselves spiral further into illness, abuse, and decay.

[if you like: toxic relationships, awful lesbians, experimental POV, tallahassee by the mountain goats, unlikeable protagonists] [adult literary fiction, first person plural + singular present]

—what's NEXT?