Izzy's Den
Given the nature of this site I think it's clear that I like stories quite a lot. Enough that at some point, I decided to start writing a few of my own! This is everything I've managed to write in my free time the past few years, give or take some short stories and a text-based adventure game that I'm having trouble running on a website. I hope you like them!
- A Study in Curiosity, an ongoing story about two women, a human and a fae, trying to learn about each other's cultures, technology, and magic. It's currently got five chapters:
- Divine Field Theory, a high fantasy story about a young artificer who finds themself accidentally made into a shapeshifter, called an Alias. It takes place in a larger fantasy world I'm working on, and is the one I'm most likely to work on whenever I find the time to write.
- Spidersilk and Bandages, A story that started as a secret santa gift on tumblr, which then swiftly grew into its own much larger thing. It's set in the distant past of the world of Divine Field Theory, 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. It has one chapter, with the potential for more in the future.
- 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, which I hope to be doing more of in the future! Right now it does feature a good bit of my jank TeX skills, so be warned before you go in.
- Short Stories, 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Last Humans Left, a sci-fi horror story that I wrote a few years ago. Loosely based on hit game Among Us, it follows the skeleton crew of a colony ship carrying the last humans fleeing a dead earth.