The song played low on the radio. The crackling sound a sweet companion to the blacktop ahead. The sun was a brilliant orange upon that blue horizon. Through a kaleidoscope window where the horizon stretched endless we drove on.
Hey, y'all. I am AshfallWrites!
I am a fiction and fantasy writer, specializing in the architecture of the surreal. My work focuses on giving characters meanings, on letting the plot breathe, letting the agenda build naturally as the story progresses. Unreliable narrators, existential dread, surreal loops of fiction, a love story that inhibits a world that feels like the town five miles down that dirt road at the end of the lane – I love creating worlds that people fall in love with. That people can curl up with, beside the hearth of a dying fire.
What I Bring to Your Project:
- Academia based Insights: As a researcher in life with a background in Psychology, I bring a clinical level of detail to mental states, trauma narratives, and characters that feel organic, real.
- Atmospheric Prose: I prioritize mood and sensory world-building. I do not just write plots; but craft environments to linger in the subliminal.
- Surrealist Edge with a Touch of Romance: Because let's be real, who does not yearn to immerse themselves in reality-bending concepts, where characters break time in order to save their chosen one, or even incur the pleasures of the flesh upon a moonlit edge of the Abyss.
- Literary Pleasure Reading: Writing pieces of content that makes a reader blush pretty red on a train ride, or make them sigh in pleasure beside a fireside in a log cabin, I consider to be one of the most accomplished sentiments of mine as an author. Be it straight or LGBTQ+, I write for all.
Service & Rates:
Short Stories (Fantasy/Fiction or Otherwise): $0.10/word (for a 1000 word story it would be $100).
Flash Fiction / Short Scenes: Starting at $20 (approx 400-500 words).
Custom: DM me if you have some custom requests or specific criteria you want in your stories.
Portfolio:
General:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wUut3HxRRipS_7RJ79Jn1xJ2wUznW5Wcg9oxjHswJ6I/edit?usp=sharing
NFSW Sample:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YxDrJxyjUKvhwbvpR_QXLMLuLsDuWPBvknU5WOkyBK0/edit?usp=sharing
Contact:
If you have a prompt that needs a dark, atmospheric touch, or something that requires you to keep your kindle at an angle when reading in public, or even something that you want to use in something you have created, be it a music piece, a game, or background lore for a world you have built, please reach out via Reddit DMs!
I am open to most themes within the aforementioned genres, though I reserve the right to decline content that relies solely on graphic shock without narrative substance, or content asking for underage characters in sexual positions, or non-consensual positions of intimacy, and any other such derogatory simile.