Short Things

Short Writing Prompts.

Project Yonah

Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
Status: In Progress
Description: On the Jewish-Settled Planet of Yeshmayin, in the colony of Chesed, mycologist Lulav Asiyah is studying a phenomonon that has been causing divers to temporarily experience ego death losing their memory. When Dr. Alabaster Sholom a scientist from the frigid colony of Da'at arrives requesting help in identifying a virus that has killed half of the Da'ati lab team including Al's own husband, Lulav suspects that the two's projects are different forms of the same matter, water and ice.
Tags: Scifi, Jewish, Worldbuilding, Queer Protag, Autistic Protag, F/F, M/M, Judaism, Kabbalah, Trauma, Grief.
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Nemoverse

Genre: Urban Fantasy / Slice of Life
Status: In Progress / Ongoing
Description: In a Fantastical Sixth Borough of New York City, called The Mound, fae and humans live side by side, typically a fae-only district the Mound is now home to it's own University, and due to rent freezes in the area more and more human immigrants have moved in in recent times.
Nemo Narayan is a twenty-something community college student working as a supernatural pest inspector. Discovered in an abandoned building as a teenager, Nemo was bitten by memory-and-knowledge-eating mites known as Oublies, and was left an amnesiac. Taken in by a widower who works as a college professor, Nemo is trying to build a completely new sense of self in a city that is hostile to the most well adjusted person.
Tags:Supernatural, Non-humans, Amnesia, Urban Fantasy, Queer Protag, F/M, Transgender Protag, Found Family, Identity.

Out with the Bathwater (tenative title)

Genre: YA Drama - F/F Romance
Status: Editing
Description: Isabel McKinnon, a young anxious trans woman in Chicago, has been putting off her legal name change for too long, drummed on by her parents and brother she finally caves and goes to the city hall to start the process, only to find her adoption papers and original are missing. Luckily she is assigned a LGBT friendly legal advisor, Mori Ishida, a handsome butch, who tries to explain the situation, her adoption was presumed to be fraudulent, a revelation that causes all the more problems at home.
Tags:Family, Adoption, Transgender Protag, Lesbian Protag, F/F, Budding Romance, Drama, Identity, Mother-Daughter Friction, Sibling Friendship, Mental Illness.