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.
- Snowballs. These are works that I've already written exactly one chapter of, but have faltered in writing more of. I do want to get to writing each of these and chances are I've made plans for where future chapters will go, but as it is now time is limited, and these openers work as standalones
- Spidersilk and Bandages is 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.
- 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.
- 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 a several 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.
- 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.
- The Concept of Special Relativity This is a Zine I wrote, meant to be read by people without any knowledge of Physics.