I've been told in the past that I have a blog-like, conversational tone. Years and years of blogging and reviewing various media (mostly video games) have altered my writing style into being fairly heavy in text and light on general fluff and dialog. I'm generally okay with this, as I'm ~48,000 words into my main fiction "The Legend of the Matriarch" and I'm enjoying how it's turning out so far. Every paragraph has a purpose, usually explaining a subject before moving onto the next subject. I can understand if people feel it's a bit dry but then, so was Lovecraft. Am I comparing myself to Lovecraft? Only in the sense of style, not competence.

Anyway, over the years I've conjured up a few stories that cannot carry a short novel on their own. I have a tale of a woman who becomes a werewolf and eventually settles in with the nearby tribe but even in my mind the story basically ends there. A terrifying encounter with a large, insane white werewolf and some PTSD moments helped by a loving girlfriend and mountain tribe of friendly werewolves help get her through but the tale just ends. There's no grand adventure, just a woman fleeing from her past and hitting the brick wall of the future.

I imagine that one being at least semi-long but on the other side, I have ideas inspired by the likes of Repo! The Genetic Opera, the source of my internet moniker "Zydrate" for many years. It takes place in a world where organ transplants became incorporated, and murder became law to reclaim them. I have a softer idea, of a world where cybernetics and implants became commonplace and a woman drained of hope looks into them to 'fix' herself. A much shorter tale to my memory.

This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience.

I have an idea of a mostly modern setting but for whatever reason the human genome split into a few variants, and culture evolved and broke down with it. That one is going to be fairly gothic in vibe, highlighting the hopelessness of changing the world.

I also have an idea for an android in a heavier SciFi worlds but even those ideas are still compiling.

On the more fantastical side, I have a story of a Goblin who falls to a Dwarven army that sacks the village her parents were from. So she has a small adventure becoming a master thief and raiding their vaults to drain the pay-funds to Dwarves. Once again, the idea is surface level to the point where I cannot conjure a full fiction based on a one-sentence idea alone.

The size of these stories will vary wildly, I will personally aim for 2-3k words as I always do but when the story is over, it's over. Maybe I can conjure up some sequels (and they will be denoted as such) but they will remain in this collection.

If you're looking for something a bit more cohesive, I'd recommend checking out my main fiction, "Legend of the Matriarch" which will maintain more focus.