“Old trauma has a way of sneaking up on you. It wraps itself around you like a blanket that's only a little too warm. You try to untangle yourself, only to find that now you're caught in a stranglehold. What once was safe is now a nightmarescape, a minefield of terrors.”
-Timber Phoenix, Capeless!
Visceral and introspective.
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Alyss
My first novel, Alyss, is a grimdark fantasy that originated in my worldbuilding for tabletop RPG’s.
Far away from any human influence lies the city of Delta. There live the Kinne, a religious community of upright-walking, intelligent forest creatures. It is here that Alyss, a mouse and lead Alchemist-Healer of her abbey, enjoys a quiet life.
When she starts receiving visions in the form of terrifying recurring nightmares, she gets desperate for relief. Her waking life quickly becomes worse than any nightmare…
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Capeless!
My second novel, Capeless! is a gritty, queer, superhero novel with a diverse cast of non-binary, polyamorous, and trans folx. It got fully backed on Kickstarter and is now in its beta-reading phase. I’m currently illustrating it during my weekly art streams.
Timber Phoenix, a morning radio DJ in Farragut City, NY, finds themself thrust into the world of Novas, the next evolution of the human race. Will Timber be able to help their newfound Nova friends? Or will they become a puppet of the dark evils that have followed them all the way to New York?
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Your Mom is Trans
I stared maintaining this blog as a way to keep from having to tell the same story over and over again. It has since grown into a trauma memoir that has helped others find the strength to persevere with their own transition in this uncertain and terrifying political climate.