AES

Joined May 2022

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NYC/Connecticut. I have degrees in Creative Writing and Anthropology; I write a lot of fantasy and spec fiction as well as the occasional stage play. When I'm not writing I'm eating candy and reading about shark attacks and plane crashes.

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Joshua. Top Story - April 2023.
Dear Mom and Dad, Didn’t you realize we were his Disneyworld? We were his dream come true, his happy ending. That night he came to us like a stray dog
By AESabout a year ago in Poets
Wonder
We were wishes, welcomed warmly, Wrapped while wailing. Weaned, wobbling. Walking, wandering. Waiting, waiting. When we’ve withered,
By AESabout a year ago in Poets
Hurt
I wait until the early hours. When the moon is perched atop the black sky’s highest ledge. Then, I move quickly. Swift and silent. A ghost’s shadow.
By AESabout a year ago in Fiction
The Gutter & The Stars
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. My brother knew this, and he didn’t waste his breath when the Watchmen came.
By AES2 years ago in Fiction
The Hourglass Academy. First Place in New Worlds Challenge. Top Story - September 2022.
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. It was the opening line in one of Burton's erotic sci-fi novellas, the ones he thinks are cleverly hidden. (Hallway bookcase, top shelf, behind the encyclopedias.) I’d read it in a day; eyes scrunched, nose wrinkled in horrible fascination. But in the end it wasn’t the extraterrestrial orgy that most disturbed me, it was the thought of dying in space. Floating away, alone and untethered, into a vast nothing.
By AES2 years ago in Fiction
Engagement
Sarah from next door is getting married, You said last fall And I don’t know who Sarah is but you seemed thrilled All bright eyed and Disney-princess sighing
By AES2 years ago in Poets
Beasts of Salt & Steel. Runner-Up in The Fantasy Prologue.
There weren’t always dragons in the Valley, Those iron beasts who scorched both land and tree, But Above, the Trident forged through rains of fire,
By AES2 years ago in Fiction

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Joshua. Top Story - April 2023.

Wonder

Hurt

The Gutter & The Stars

The Hourglass Academy. First Place in New Worlds Challenge. Top Story - September 2022.

Engagement

Beasts of Salt & Steel. Runner-Up in The Fantasy Prologue.

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Wonder

Hurt

The Gutter & The Stars

The Hourglass Academy. First Place in New Worlds Challenge. Top Story - September 2022.

Engagement

Beasts of Salt & Steel. Runner-Up in The Fantasy Prologue.

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Joshua. Top Story - April 2023.