The Table

The Table started as a way to work out my issues in a fictional format, but as it turns out, it isn't healing to write it's actually extremely exhausting. Florence (strictly unrelated to my yume, Florence has been around a lot longer. Like three years.), has been named different things in different books for years, but ultimately she is the same person. The Table is driven by her, the plot being only after getting married too young and her husband dying, she spirals and has nobody to help her get back up. Her mother (whom her relationship with is poor) tries but it always turns to shit, essentially. Then she meets another guy and tries to incorporate him into her life and dysfunctional family without losing him, too. The romance is not a central plot, it is very much on the back burner, it's primary literary fiction, just her going through life. She also is very in her head, and has some obsessive-compulsive tendecies which I didn't know I had written her to have until I was told I have obsessive-compulsive tendencies (I was projecting--shocking). (Those who fit the statistic of taking 12-14 years to get diagnosed, unite!).

the vampire situation

I think the books title will be The Maidservant. It's about Mallory, who after her fiance goes out on a whaling trip and never comes back, becomes enlisted in a "until death" contract with Anastasia, who is really a vampire whose been around since before Islam. Her lover was killed the Uymayyad Caliphate (I was inspired by Dune as a white person to incorporate islamic elements into my work, Inshallah). When the caliphate started a new rule in Spain, she followed. Mallory thinks the "until death" just means she's locked in to be this woman's maid until she dies but really Anastasia turns her into a vampire, forcing her to be her companion forever. Anastasia herself doesn't drink blood, as it would return her body to her youthful self, so she hunts and brings blook back for Mallory, to keep her her youthful servant. This is a side-project that may end up being my first published book because I'm taking my time with The Table because I don't want it to suck because I rushed it. The Maidservant is a shorter project, thought, probably being a novella. For school, I have to publish something by next spring, so something will have to be done. It's set in the 18th century and the vampire gif I put on here has no resemblance to anything in the book. Anastasia does not look like that <---- that gif is actually a photo of me

Published Work

My poem, "Passio," was featured in issue eight of As Surely As the Sun literary journal