Hello! Welcome to my page.

I'm an aro/ace writer who's been writing since high school. I cut my teeth on fanfiction starting at age of 12 and still love to write it on the side (AnOctoberPepper on other sites as well). I moved to original fiction in late high school/college. I especially love stories about siblings, cults, and magic woven into SciFi. I write in my free time from the idilic foothills of the Appalachian mountains.

I am especially passionate about writing stories that accurately (albeit usually ensconced in Science Fiction) portrey mental health conditions. I want to see more stories that don't show people with schizophrenia/bipolar as dangerous, or as a special *shocking* plot device.

I am a sister, dog mom, and "favorite" aunt to four amazing nibblets.
  • JoinedJanuary 6, 2016


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AnOctoberPepper AnOctoberPepper Jun 06, 2023 01:51PM
Dark Places is shortlisted in the Open Novella Contest!!! This novella was a challenge for me and I'm glad I took the risk. I rarely tread into adult fiction and adventure is so hard to write! Dark...
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Stories by AnOctoberPepper
Than to Have Never Loved at All by AnOctoberPepper
Than to Have Never Loved at All
When the Drama Club chooses "Tis better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all," a...
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Dark Places || ONC 2023 by AnOctoberPepper
Dark Places || ONC 2023
~*ONC shortlist*~ It's up to a climbing enthusiast, and the local jaded doctor to find out what's going on wh...
Jovie and their Final Words by AnOctoberPepper
Jovie and their Final Words
Jovie, a leader in a rebel group who has stolen one of Earth's few life rafts, is suddenly faced with a horri...
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