come home to my heart

Genre(s): Fantasy, Apocalypse-lite

Keywords: Religion, Vengeance, Diverse Cast, Overcoming Trauma, Coming of Age, Mystery, Oncoming Disaster, Found Family

THE PLOT:

Everything is born from the Sea; and to the Sea, our Mother, everything shall return.

Kai is a newly ordained wrathful Sea monk, a religious acolyte of Sea and Bone, who has recently been denied her first pilgrimage. Sorin is a runaway noble from the Iron City in search of refuge, and arrives at Tyr Halen monastery malnourished and broken. Forced to take care of him as a test of faith, the two soon realize that Sorin’s been followed, and that that’s only the beginning to fateful events that will fall upon the Moorlands- the Dwarven queens are on the march against each other, and the Giants are drifting back into the Sea while others call upon the Old Gods to take back what they claim was stolen from them. And caught in the middle of it all, the habitants of Halen must prepare themselves for whatever comes next.

The hills are singing of disaster, and the Sea is calling back Her children.

Excerpt from THIS MIGHT BE A DISASTER

Context: Evelyn has just learned that her 17-year-old brother, August, got into a physical fight with another player at his soccer game. 

When she hung up the phone and shoved it into her back pocket, she was unsurprised to find Seymour nearby. She had the strangest feeling that she’d begun to be attuned to his presence, as though she could sense it whenever he stepped into her orbit. 

“Is everything all right?” He was a few feet away, pink streaks in his cheeks, tired and flustered, maybe hungry, in the dusky seven o’clock light. And yet he seemed so stable, so unyielding. She knew it was a dangerous thing to let herself believe, but Seymour looked like someone she could lean on, someone who wouldn’t be disappointed when they learned what a disaster she really was. 

“Do you remember what it was like to be an angry teenage boy?” she said, instead of answering his question. 

Seymour drew closer– one step, two, tilting his head to look at her, his hands thrust into his pockets. It took him a while to answer, but when he did, his answer was different and better than she could have imagined. 

“More than most,” he said. “I was an angry young man for centuries. It took me a very long time to learn to be anything else.” 

Evelyn exhaled slowly, tension draining from her body. She had been put off by his age, afraid of it. But it was nice, actually, to think that he had seen problems infinitely greater than hers, and problems equal to and lesser than hers, a thousand times over, across centuries and cities– and yet he still cared about her small worries, her panicked phone calls in parking lots at sundown, when he could have been long gone by now. 

She swallowed hard and said “Would you like to meet my family?” 

He smiled. “I would like nothing better, Evelyn.” 

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i wish you wouldn’t | a.elenko | excerpt 

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Some information about me, however:

I’m 28, non binary and use they/them pronouns.

I write dark fantasy, dystopia, and supernatural & biblical horror. My target audience is new adult & adult.

I prefer to follow those who are 18+!

@herondalelucies (not only an amazing writer,, the phoenix mark and crowned speaking for themselves,, but cindy is so sweet and always interacts with other writeblrs! so supportive !! so encouraging !! )

@fictional-semantics (so talented. gosh, so good. i look forward to the excerpts i’m tagged in so much. *chefs kiss*)

@honeyscript (tagging this queen so i get an update on that wip i look forward to! also, bless you for always interacting with other writeblrs! the support is unmatched)

@aelenko (i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again, abby is such an amazing writer. like, i’m still surprised i’m reading this on tumblr and not in a book i just bought and couldn’t put down. i love everything i’ve had the chance to read)

@junebishopwrites (omg i read one excerpt, ONE, and was hooked to the wip This Might Be a Disaster. pls check it out)

i wish you wouldn’t art | a.elenko | connor murphy & aman khalil

Question for people who submit prose to literary magazines: 

What do you do in between finishing a story and submitting it? For example, do you…

Ask your friends to read the draft?

Pay a professional to proofread/edit?

Share it with your writing group?

Post it on a website (Tumblr, another site?) for feedback?

Do something else?

Never post it on a website for feedback, as many literary magazines won't consider pieces that have been previously published anywhere, including blogs etc! 

Get a trusted friend or writing group member to read it and give feedback or do a grammar check, depending on what you think it needs 

Don’t pay for professional editing-- lit mags don’t pay that much, so even if it got published, you might not earn back what you spent, and it’s probably just not worth it 

Learn and use standard manuscript format! (here’s my favorite guide for that). Most lit mags like SMF, but also: