Fiction

Somewhere between memoir and fantasy, Enneaka is a tale of coming out genderqueer — of video games and mirror cities and all the ends of the world — told through a young heroine, Enneaka, and the person doing the telling, who’s wishing her story was his.

Enneaka is a 12-year-old queer girl whose worlds keep dying around her, a walking child of the apocalypse. Her narrator, an adult cisgender burnout, is playing catch-up to all the things he’s spent a lifetime burying. As Enneaka tries to save her Mirror City from destruction (she fails), or become a scavenger on a flooded wasteland (she dies), the author is writing pop culture essays about girls in video games and trying to work out why a piece of him feels like it’s missing.

This a bigender coming out story for queer adult readers. For sample chapters or any other information, please inquire below.

The Last Alchemist is a steampunk fantasy for young adult readers. A girl, alone in her own pocket universe, learns that she contains all of the magic from the world she left behind.

Kya, trans and 14 years old, is alone in a ruined city, where she survives by scavenging. The city of Dio, once magical, is now barren – and Kya has been the only person in it for three years. 

When Kya finds a demon-shaped automaton that speaks in gibberish, it seems to have come from the world before the Catastrophe: the night when the city lost all its magic, and all its people. The night Kya lost her parents.

Now Kya has to figure out what’s gone wrong with the world. The robot is searching for something, but Kya doesn’t understand what it’s saying. The rules of this place are wrong, and nothing is working as it should. There are shapeless creatures lurking in the shadows of the ruined city, and they want to eat Kya alive. 

Worst of all: Kya knows that if she lets them get too close, a power comes out of her that she doesn’t understand, can’t control, and which is strong enough to destroy the entire world. It feels a lot like magic… but it also feels like grief.