Izzy's Den
Here you'll find all the writing that I liked enough to put online. Several of these stories (pretty much any of the fantasy ones) take place in a shared world called Grassroots, if you'd like to know more about it I'll probably be putting up a map/timeline of it at some point.
- Spidersilk and Bandages is set in the distant past of Grassroots, and follows a cleric, injured and alone in the middle of the forest, who ends up in the care of a wandering part-spider field medic. Continuing this one is one of my top priorities as I've become hopelessly obsessed with the characters. It has two chapters:
- By Sand and Stars, a story about a stranger riding a mechanical mount chasing down a local bandit gang and their impenetrable kinetic braking field. It started as a one-off I wrote for a local magazine, but I've since thought up a whole background/world for this story and have a story outlined, so yay!
- Introductions. These are works that I've already written exactly one chapter of. I'm currently working on writing more chapters for these.
- The Last Daughter of Bears and the First Son of Peace is a fantasy body-swap scene about a bear-woman and the prince of a small kingdom. I wrote it for a one-page zine swap in February 2025 and promply forgot to put it online for a while, but I had a lot of fun writing it!
- Ideas. These are works that skew more towards the conceptual. Character studies, attempts at capturing a specific atmosphere, and anything else that doesn't really qualify as a 'full' story in my eyes.
- Rivers is a snippet about that time, long ago, when rivers used to be dragons.
- Typewriter is a few lines I wrote from the perspective of one of those titular writing machines.
- The Librarian's Guest, a story about a borrower retiring in a library, and the bookkeeper who works the graveyard shift.
- The Drive to Live, a story about an old lady answering some questions over tea.
- The Last Humans Left, a sci-fi horror story that I wrote in October of 2020, making it older than the site by a wide margin. Loosely based on hit game Among Us, it follows the skeleton crew of a colony ship carrying the last humans fleeing a dead earth.
- Physics Stuff These are things various little pieces I've made as a physicist! Most of them are meant to be as accessible as possible to those without a physics background, but especially with the earlier stuff I may have been not the best at explaining. If you have any questions or want to learn more, reach out to me at IzzyDeadyetStories@gmail.com
- The Concept of Special Relativity is a Zine I wrote, meant to be read by people without any knowledge of Physics.
- A Crash Course in General Relativity and Gravitational Waves is exactly what it says on the tin! This is my first foray into physics writing, written for an internship I had in Summer 2023! Right now it does feature a good bit of my jank TeX skills, so be warned before you go in.
- Embers. These two are some of the earliest writing on this site. They're both projects that were a bit ambitious for me at the time, and as such both of them have since petered out. I'm really proud of them and what they did for my development as a writer, but I don't think I'll be going back to them any time soon.
- A Study in Curiosity, a story about two women, a human and a fae, trying to learn about each other's cultures, technology, and magic. This started as a project for the g/t community on Tumblr.
- Divine Field Theory, a high fantasy story about a young artificer who finds themself accidentally made into a shapeshifter. It sparked the creation of a much larger fantasy world I've been working on behind the scenes. This is one that I definitely want to go back to at some point, as designing the plot for this story was where a lot of the worldbuilding for Grassroots started, but I'm not sure whether that would be continuing this or starting from scratch.