Max'inux was eighteen when she disappeared during a school field trip to Oceanworld; a marine park. Taken by a covert military-based organization called THALASSA, they used her to do the impossible: transfer a human consciousness to that of a captive orca. Now a "unique" blue-eyed female orca called Lunara, she swims under flourescent lights instead of stars; her world restricted by concrete, glass, and fake currents. THALASSA calls it species conservation. Education. Awe. Lunara still remembers having human hands, spoken language, high school classrooms, and choice while she is framed to park visitors as a unique orca that was "rescued from the wild under dangerous circumstances". Fractures begin to form within Oceanworld itself as not all staff agree with how Lunara is being handled. Among them is a marine biologist who clearly hears what most miss and a trainer who sees a person instead of a flagship asset. Park administrators speak of liability and optics while a close-bonded pod of orcas tries to keep one another from breaking from the stress of captivity. As her pod is eventually deliberately separated under the orders of an ex-marine who views Lunara as nothing more than a problem to be managed, she is forced into mechanical perfection and slowly begins to uncover THALASSA's true motives for her and the pod as she tries to reach the impossible goal of getting herself and the pod to the Pacific Ocean while hiding the full scope of her human awareness. Human-Origin confronts uncomfortable questions: What does captivity mean for intelligent marine mammals whose minds can rival our own? What is consent when the subject can't refuse? What are the ethics of trapping a functioning human mind inside a body designed for an entirely different world- then placing that body in a too-small tank for profit? Told through haunting first-person immersion; Human-Origin explores resilience, identity, and the moral cost of control over other sentient beings.

Dragonfire: Storm's Awakening is an urban epic fantasy of Awakening, survival, and sovereignty- where dorm rooms, finals, and late-night mistakes collide with dragons, ancient magicks, and an Empress' throne surrounded by blood. Ashling is nineteen- a college freshman still figuring out who she is and where she belongs- when one choice shatters her world. What she thinks is ordinary cannabis that was handed to her by a concealed Awakened western drakk turned out to be endring- dragon cannabis- a tightly-controlled substance with the power to force a dormant drakk to Awaken. The result is irreversable; storms gather in the sky over campus as teal fire floods her veins. She awakens as a hellig western drakk; one of the most powerful and feared drakk sublineages thought all but extinct. Thrown into a hidden world that has existed alongside humanity for centuries, Ashling learns the truth behind her Awakening: she is the lost daughter of a mudered empress; her survival erased from history to protect her from unseen, power-hungry eyes. Gifted with control over air and lightning along with her fire, Ashling's power is immense- and dangerously untrained. Every faction sees her differently: a symbol, a weapon, a liability, or a prize. Some want to crown her while others want to control her. More than a few would rather see her dead before she can choose her own path. As hunters wield and refine stolen and warped drakk knowledge, Ashling must learn to survive in a world where trust is rare and bloodlines are currency. Caught between her mundane human life and a legacy forged in fire and storm, she faces a question no one can answer for her: Will she become what the world demands- or redefine what a drakk empress can be? Lush, intense, and female character-driven, Storm's Awakening blends modern urban fantasy with deep mythic lore and explores identity, power, and the cost of inheritence when the storm itself has a will of its' own.

Clara Sakurai is a senior at a prestigious boarding school in North Carolina. With a good GPA, she is on track to attend Stanford University and major in engineering. After departing from a party, she is ambushed, drugged, and robbed of her promising future. When she wakes up, she finds herself in a strange place that is filled with creatures of lore; some well-known, others not so. What she wasn't expecting was that she had become one of them. Author's note: Very, very loosely inspired by aspects of @CrystalScherer's book Upon Wings of Change. I own everything except the basic idea. Started: 4/23/2018 First chapter published: 6/28/2019 Finished: TBD

Eighteen-year-old Kara is in her first semester of college at Syracuse University. As a film major, she has big dreams of moving to Chicago, Los Angeles, or Atlanta and making it big in the industry post-graduation; but, being kidnapped and turned into a fire-breathing Mini Dragon wasn't exactly a part of those plans for her future. Being unwillingly turned into a cat-sized dragon after a fun night out almost certainly wasn't a part of her plan, and an alien invasion out of the blue further complicates things. Will Kara- now a Dragonet without a mind voice- be able to make it in this new world? Inspired by Upon Wings of Change by Crystal Scherer.