About this newsletter
Hello, I’m Chandra and on this newsletter I mostly write horror, surrealism, sci-fi and fantasy. Most of it is flash fiction & short fiction. Sometimes I talk about the writing process itself, and sometimes I talk about the characters & settings of my more long-term projects (i.e. novel-length stuff, like my main project Kriya Petri, a fantasy book series; more info about it to be added to this page later on).
Here’s a link to a collection of posts I recommend you start with, just to get a taste of what type of things I write. And here’s my Linktree as well, if you want to keep up with me on any other platforms.
Recurrent settings & themes
You can also expect to see some stories set in the Antarikshaw, a generation ship headed to… well, no one really remembers. Also there’s an eldritch abomination in the engine rooms and its mere presence is enough to make one’s mind feel like it sprouted thorns & fungi, like everything just went prickly & hazy & painful, everything burning, burning, burning if you even think too much about the Creature‘s existence.
Another setting is Fillor, a country in the far(-ish, it’s still in our own galaxy) planet of Thuluke. Its residents are nearly similar to Earth humans, but then they’ve also got gills (there are many underwater buildings, typically ancient structures & buildings built around said ancient structures), and their pigmentation often features traces of purple emeye-e (aka magic) and u-ua-emeye-e (aka unmagic). These magic & unmagic substances assist in the fluid & rigid parts of magic-craft respectively. Magic in Fillor is a regular part of everyday life: daily commute involves catching a cloud (or breeze, rarely sunlight too). The currents in the underwater regions are maintained with Water magic. And it’s very common to see stitchcraft products around, made with threads of sunlight, starlight, fire, thunder, skin grafts & transplanted organs (that’s specifically bio-stitchcraft). There’s magic potions too, which have deep cultural importance, whether it’s for healing or for ensuring that hugely momentous occasions (like weddings, deaths, births) can proceed well.
And that’s without even telling you about the wondrous flora & fauna of this world! Or the Thought magician patrols who, under the authority of the Divine Monarchy (who live on the upper cloudlands; gill-lacking folks, strange enough), wander around discretely and conduct brain scans regularly in order to check who in the local populace shows tendencies towards what-the-Divine-Monarchy-calls ‘traits of criminality’ (which can range from “intent to commit an actual crime” to “has a certain immutable trait that reduces their productivity and/or ability & fitness to reproduce”)! We also haven’t yet mentioned Kaewoe, an extremely magical region deep below the ground, reachable only through a kana-a portal. Everyone who goes to Kaewoe slowly disappears from the minds of everyone who ever knew them, nearly (nearly!) every trace of their existence getting erased even from written documents and photographs and audio-thread-storages; they become ‘u-uabeno’, unknowledge. Starts with the name becoming unthinkable, then every other trace vanishes. And this is where the worst criminals go, along with those with a few too many traits of criminality. (and also some poor saps who open up a kana-a portal by complete accident)
Anyway, I haven’t even scratched the surface of the world of Fillor, but this got way longer than I expected for the About page haha. You can expect to hear more about it if you subscribe to the newsletter though ;)
And again, here’s the collection of posts I’d recommend you to start with.
