About Samedi

 

I've been rewriting this book since 2018.

Now it has been professionally edited. The cover above is a mockup I put together as a placeholder while I commission a real title, altered from Mikhail Nilov's artwork (source: Pexels). 

It's becoming real, folks. It'll be in your hands soon, and that feels amazing. 

So what is Samedi about?

It's about my experiences in academia. It's about the wonders of exploring space, and the misadventures I've had exploring Earth. It's about found family. It's about making the wrong decisions for the right reasons. It's about trauma forcing you to become resilient while causing you not to confront your feelings. It's about fear of not belonging, resentment of being less privileged, determination to keep slogging through it all. It's about finding courage and unexpected strength. It's about queer.

But on its face, it's about a forensic specialist named Ash Telanera - a lovable curmudgeon with a whole stack of chips on their shoulder. When this damned unlikely action hero stumbles into the greatest discovery in human experience, they have to hitch up their bootstraps and save lives.

A fresh start for WTAFiction

    Hi! I'm Duck. I write social science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror, take photographs, paint, and dabble in pretty plating of my cooking and baking.

    If you're familiar with this blog from earlier times, you may be surprised to find out how empty a space it is right now. I took a hard look at it and decided that it was simply a mess: stories in all stages of rough and finished drafts, edited and unedited, in many genres, in a variety of fonts (!) were jumbled together without consideration to unity of style or message. I decided to revert everything to "drafts" (nothing being lost) and start again with a nice, fresh, clean page.

    Everything from here on out will hopefully be a little more unified. Unless clearly marked otherwise, all images are my original artwork and all stories are mine. I hope you enjoy the re-launch!