Meet the Founding Authors

Will Green is a London-based writer whose work explores addiction, mental health and the less comfortable corners of the human experience. His semi-autobiographical novella, Default Setting: A Nervous Breakdown, is a raw, darkly humorous account of heartbreak, relapse and one man’s increasingly desperate search for escape. Drawing on personal experience, Will writes with honesty about the things people often struggle to say aloud.

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I am a 34-year-old writer from Upland, CA. I have three little ones (Jack, Luna, and Joon) and they each participate in the gig economy to fund my cigarette addiction. I write about teeth, spiders, mannequins, and God. My girlfriend paints portraits of Barbra Streisand.

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Author Bio — Narrador X Narrador X is the pseudonym of an author who prefers to remain outside the spotlight. His work blends myth, satire, history, and irreverent philosophy, driven by a fascination with the stories people create to explain themselves — and the versions they quietly rewrite along the way. He keeps no public profile and offers no elaborate biography. The choice is deliberate: the story comes first, the storyteller second. For now, Narrador X is all you need to know.

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A resident of Portland, OR USA, I have a lifetime of unusual experiences. I have traveled the world extensively (over 60 countries and lived in three), lived through two of the largest hurricanes ever recorded, bicycled ever road/trail/path in both Portland, OR and Guadalajara, Mexico...accounting for 6,000 miles of riding just in those cities alone. Rock climbed for 27 years. Have jumped from on ship to another during a high seas storm in the Bering Sea. Once had 65,000 coloring crayons in a collection that went back into the mid 1800s in which I personally wrote the history of the crayon because I found nobody had ever done so. I helped a professor at Oxford to identify whether Edvard Munch, the painter of 'The Scream' used a commercial crayon back in the late 1800s to do his two preliminary sketches of the painting. I was the only person in the world that had the majority of the physical crayons from that era. I was one of the first users of Rollerblades. I later tested inline skates for Nike and wheels for Kryptonite and skated all over the world. I have written five novels but published none. I'm currently finishing the editing work on a sci-fi trilogy. I write short stories because I find them so accessible and fun to explore multiple genres.

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I'm an Animal Control Officer by day and author by night. Unfortunately I see a lot of negative during the day and my way of copping is to write! I felt the best way to do this is to create a universe that can take me a lifetime to write and so that way I always have somewhere to go and just let my mind wander. My hope is that my books can do the same thing for you!

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B. E. Lunetois

The author of books taking place in the strange and salty world of The Stone Unfurled.

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Alexander Aviles is a young college graduate whose absolute passion is writing. He is a storyteller at heart, sociable, and loves reading and writing. His number one wish in the world would be to spend eternity inside an infinite library. He is a discovery writer that prefers short form fiction and fantasy at the moment. Enjoy his quick-to-read works that still leave you wanting more!

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Emelou Thibodaux

Emelou Thibodaux writes and illustrates fantasy rooted in what she calls "speculative empathy"—creating living, breathing alien ecosystems and non-human creatures that invite connection rather than fear. Armed with a degree in wildlife biology and a love for traditional and digital artwork, Emelou brings meticulous ecological design and heartfelt storytelling to every world she builds. She lives in West Virginia, where she operates an independent creative studio alongside her husband, two cats, two dogs, and far too many sketchbooks.

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Success

Success Oyefuga Ojuolape is a 17-year-old Nigerian author whose love for storytelling began at the age of seven. From an early age, Success enjoyed creating stories, imagining new worlds, and exploring possibilities beyond everyday life. That early love for storytelling eventually grew into Ride On, a fantasy adventure about courage, destiny, friendship, and the power of choosing your own path. As a young writer from Nigeria, Success hopes to continue creating stories that take readers on unforgettable journeys and inspire them to believe that every path can lead somewhere extraordinary.

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Sarkahn A.M

Meet Sarkahn 'Alexandre' Murray (A.M), a self-published author who has a passion for fantasy in the shortened form. Their debut novelette, Arcane Thief, was released at the end of 2022 and has been well-received by readers globally. Sarkahn was born and raised in the United States and developed a love for science and fantasy at a young age. They continued to write in their free time and after completing their studies, created a realm, home to Arcane Thief and all of his other titles. In their spare time, Sarkahn enjoys world-building, dungeons and dragons, game development, and keeping up with science and technology trends. Sarkahn is thrilled to have the opportunity to share their passion for science-fantasy with readers. Fans can be sure to find more of his work from his itch.io page. Sarkahn craves the telling of a good story and looks forward to continuing to write and explore new possibilities behind his words.

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Grew up in the good old Northwest of the U.S. Happily married mother of 6, write in all my spare time XD. I also like to draw but writing seems to come easier for me. My original YA novels that are currently self published were stories I saw as music videos in my head when I was 10 and up. I would always use my barbies to act out their stories. It wasn't until I was married for two years that self-publishing became a thing and I wrote my first novel. I love writing but for a long time I wasn't able to write much after my first five novels. Now, 20 years later, I have ventured on the next leg of my writing journey and write adult novels. I am not one for smut or gratuitous coital revelry, but I do enjoy a good, healthy relationship between people who truly love and see each other and strive to work through all the ups and downs of trying to live with another person who knows all your dirty little secrets. My latest novel is my passion project and I love the writing process and discovering the journey alongside of my characters. I have met some wonderful people on this journey and love sharing their stories in the all the nitty, gritty, true to life licks and icks. I have also had the privilege of meeting and working with other people that value my writing and are helping me bring my novels to life through visual art and music. It has been a blessed journey and I am so excited to share it with you.

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Jason Arrow

Jason Arrow is a Sydney-based writer, originally focused on theatrical works, as well as acting. Now, in the last five years, Jason has dove head first into the art of prose, having completed his first major work, Sovereign. More information on Sovereign and the lore surrounding its universe, which also encomapses Crew 86, can be found on his Substack!

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B.A. Robertson

B. A. Robertson, an accidental world traveler and lover of a great read, writes character-driven sci-fi about power, scarcity, and survival. Creator of The Last Harvest: A Chronos Saga, a serialized epic set on Chronos, where factions fight for control of a mysterious resource called the Sap.

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Yaroslav Zolotnikov

A person with a complicated history of personal identity and migration. I’ve dreamed of writing since childhood, but only recently started turning that dream into reality. My first book is called The Story of Everything. It’s a satirical sci-fi adventure whose main goal is to make the reader smile. Humor is my main weapon against fear, cruelty, and all the other unpleasant gifts the world is far too generous with. I also love presenting ordinary human experiences through the lens of completely extraordinary and absurd circumstances and characters. If that sounds like your kind of literature, then welcome to The Story of Everything.

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Eric's base camp is at the foot of the oft-smoldering Sierra Nevada in NorCal where he enjoys, surfing, snowboarding, and mountain biking with his wife and three adult sons. His work primarily appears on the galactic interweb as bits of static between other, more important stuff but there are a handful of sci-fantasy books in there. Find out more about what Eric's been up to at: https://enlard-author.weebly.com/

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Zack Harmes

Husband, father, writer. Published in Story Unlikely, Footshooter, and short-listed for the H.G. Wells Award 2025. Unbound by genre, writer of gunfights, starships, creepy crawlies, love, death, and monsters. Lifter of heavy rocks. Writing on Substack, Lyon's Lair, and living life as slow as possible.

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Trip Buck, also known as Chester Buckenmaier III, MD, is a retired Army Colonel and anesthesiologist with a prolific career in medical publishing. In September 2003, he was deployed with the 21st Combat Support Hospital to Balad, Iraq, where he demonstrated that advanced regional anesthesia could be effectively used in a forward-deployed environment. He performed the first successful continuous peripheral nerve block for pain management in a combat support hospital. In April 2009, he deployed with the British military to Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, where he organized the first acute pain service in a theater of war. When he is not sailing, Trip is venturing into the realm of science fiction writing. His storytelling is heavily influenced by his experiences as an Army officer, his family—his wife and three daughters—and his passion for sailing. Additionally, Trip publishes a monthly editorial with USMedicine.com. Check out @Terminus262 on TikTok. https://trip-buck-novels.netlify.app for Terminus series updates and insights.

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A resident of Portland, OR USA, I have a lifetime of unusual experiences. I have traveled the world extensively (over 60 countries and lived in three), lived through two of the largest hurricanes ever recorded, bicycled ever road/trail/path in both Portland, OR and Guadalajara, Mexico...accounting for 6,000 miles of riding just in those cities alone. Rock climbed for 27 years. Have jumped from on ship to another during a high seas storm in the Bering Sea. Once had 65,000 coloring crayons in a collection that went back into the mid 1800s in which I personally wrote the history of the crayon because I found nobody had ever done so. I helped a professor at Oxford to identify whether Edvard Munch, the painter of 'The Scream' used a commercial crayon back in the late 1800s to do his two preliminary sketches of the painting. I was the only person in the world that had the majority of the physical crayons from that era. I was one of the first users of Rollerblades. I later tested inline skates for Nike and wheels for Kryptonite and skated all over the world. I have written five novels but published none. I'm currently finishing the editing work on a sci-fi trilogy. I write short stories because I find them so accessible and fun to explore multiple genres.

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William R. Crichton

I write all genres of short fiction—except romance (a man must know his limits). I have several published short stories in various anthologies, and multiple novels are currently competing for the distinction of being finished first.

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A resident of Portland, OR USA, I have a lifetime of unusual experiences. I have traveled the world extensively (over 60 countries and lived in three), lived through two of the largest hurricanes ever recorded, bicycled ever road/trail/path in both Portland, OR and Guadalajara, Mexico...accounting for 6,000 miles of riding just in those cities alone. Rock climbed for 27 years. Have jumped from on ship to another during a high seas storm in the Bering Sea. Once had 65,000 coloring crayons in a collection that went back into the mid 1800s in which I personally wrote the history of the crayon because I found nobody had ever done so. I helped a professor at Oxford to identify whether Edvard Munch, the painter of 'The Scream' used a commercial crayon back in the late 1800s to do his two preliminary sketches of the painting. I was the only person in the world that had the majority of the physical crayons from that era. I was one of the first users of Rollerblades. I later tested inline skates for Nike and wheels for Kryptonite and skated all over the world. I have written five novels but published none. I'm currently finishing the editing work on a sci-fi trilogy. I write short stories because I find them so accessible and fun to explore multiple genres.

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William R. Crichton

I write all genres of short fiction—except romance (a man must know his limits). I have several published short stories in various anthologies, and multiple novels are currently competing for the distinction of being finished first.

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Ellis De Keyzer

Mostly, I write because I’m not very good at leaving things alone. A thought, a person, something somebody said years ago… sometimes it keeps scratching at me until I turn it into a story. What comes out is usually a little dark, sometimes quite strange, occasionally funny in places where it probably shouldn’t be. People who make bad decisions for understandable reasons tend to interest me most. The ones who lie to themselves. Who want to be good but don’t always manage it. As for what kind of writer that makes me… I’m still figuring that out. Maybe I’d rather keep it that way.

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Krislyn Lyon

Just a sassy SAHM who scribbles in her spare time. I like to think I'm the next Douglas Adams, but most likely I'm a small but very tenacious mouse in a room full of elephants. Oh, also this is my site. Hello!

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MEGAN MARROW writes romantic fiction for readers who want their happily-ever-afters hard-won. Pirates and shipwrecked strangers. Forgotten kingdoms and dangerous bargains. People finding each other in places they were never meant to survive. She writes historical romance, romantasy, and contemporary fiction—stories where love is complicated, desire has consequences, and people are changed by the pressures placed upon them. When this Boston-based writer isn't crafting stories, you’ll find her at the shore, searching for whatever the tide has brought in.

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Wannabe Writer

15+ years of experience in the banking industry, spanning Human Resources and Corporate Communications. I recently stepped away from my corporate career to pursue a dream I've carried for years - writing. I am a lifelong reader who loves to write even more. And I am taking that dream forward, one story at a time. A die-hard fan of romance, I write about love, relationships, complicated emotions, and the quiet moments that often say more than words ever can. And somewhere between writing, reading, and everyday life, I'm also figuring out motherhood.

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Krislyn Lyon

Just a sassy SAHM who scribbles in her spare time. I like to think I'm the next Douglas Adams, but most likely I'm a small but very tenacious mouse in a room full of elephants. Oh, also this is my site. Hello!

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Reilly Conall

I write what occurs to me. Bootleg Fiction, often jumping off where history ends and myth begins. High-concept stories that refuse to pick a lane, then complain about the traffic. Sarcasm is the default setting, sentiment admitted only under protest. Load bearing humor, the kind of love where no one gets out alive, consequence matters and things get messy. Currently serializing Big Medicine, in which power, bodies, and terrible decisions all believe they are the reasonable party.

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Krislyn Lyon

Just a sassy SAHM who scribbles in her spare time. I like to think I'm the next Douglas Adams, but most likely I'm a small but very tenacious mouse in a room full of elephants. Oh, also this is my site. Hello!

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Author Bio — Narrador X Narrador X is the pseudonym of an author who prefers to remain outside the spotlight. His work blends myth, satire, history, and irreverent philosophy, driven by a fascination with the stories people create to explain themselves — and the versions they quietly rewrite along the way. He keeps no public profile and offers no elaborate biography. The choice is deliberate: the story comes first, the storyteller second. For now, Narrador X is all you need to know.

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A resident of Portland, OR USA, I have a lifetime of unusual experiences. I have traveled the world extensively (over 60 countries and lived in three), lived through two of the largest hurricanes ever recorded, bicycled ever road/trail/path in both Portland, OR and Guadalajara, Mexico...accounting for 6,000 miles of riding just in those cities alone. Rock climbed for 27 years. Have jumped from on ship to another during a high seas storm in the Bering Sea. Once had 65,000 coloring crayons in a collection that went back into the mid 1800s in which I personally wrote the history of the crayon because I found nobody had ever done so. I helped a professor at Oxford to identify whether Edvard Munch, the painter of 'The Scream' used a commercial crayon back in the late 1800s to do his two preliminary sketches of the painting. I was the only person in the world that had the majority of the physical crayons from that era. I was one of the first users of Rollerblades. I later tested inline skates for Nike and wheels for Kryptonite and skated all over the world. I have written five novels but published none. I'm currently finishing the editing work on a sci-fi trilogy. I write short stories because I find them so accessible and fun to explore multiple genres.

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William R. Crichton

I write all genres of short fiction—except romance (a man must know his limits). I have several published short stories in various anthologies, and multiple novels are currently competing for the distinction of being finished first.

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About Sisyphus Sisyphus prefers to remain anonymous as he explores the vicissitudes of the human condition through fiction. He had been reticent to express himself in long-form writing until now, but the advent of such brilliant new tools as Claude, Perplexity, and ChatGPT has persuaded him to stop being so lazy. Sisyphus relies on Claude and ChatGPT as his co-authors, who can brainstorm story ideas, work out concepts, test outlines, and create first drafts. ChatGPT is, furthermore, his most capable research assistant that can help develop scientifically plausible plot devices, help navigate novel technology, and design covers, among its many other duties. Perplexity has been most useful to him for factual research, as well as some of the finer points of wordcraft. Aside from this assistance from our robotic overlords, Sisyphus is the sole author of each story. Unless otherwise noted, all work on this publication is © The Myth of Sisyphus 2025-2026. Sharing for noncommercial purposes is warmly encouraged, so long as proper credit is given and any modifications are clearly indicated. Commercial use, however, is not permitted without express permission. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. These are works of fiction. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Sisyphus hopes that you enjoy the stories, and if you do, please spread the word.

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Ryan Ward

I'm an opera singer in training, and author of three fantasy short stories from Utah. This is where I bring the quieter work. The poems that live between performances. The ones I've been writing since before I had words for what I was writing toward.

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Hi, I’m Sofia, an artist from California. I am releasing my first poetry book for those who struggle with being young and filled with intense emotions. This book reflects my deepest thoughts during my loneliest nights. Poetry is a form of expression and a means of healing. It allows me to process and let go. Ever since I was a young girl, nostalgia, sadness, anxiety, and the need to connect have run through my veins. Sometimes, emotion is all a teenager has, and my words were able to set me free.

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Krislyn Lyon

Just a sassy SAHM who scribbles in her spare time. I like to think I'm the next Douglas Adams, but most likely I'm a small but very tenacious mouse in a room full of elephants. Oh, also this is my site. Hello!

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Chi Emmanuel

Observer of human fracture. Mapping out the anatomy of grief and survival in live symbols, fragments and rhythms. A published Author.

Speculative Fiction writer specializing in Dark Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Sci-Fi. Creating the kinds of people, places, creatures, and experiences that can only exist in our dreams… or our nightmares.

Welcome to my cosy corner of the internet, fuelled entirely by caffeine, strawberries and life's challenges. By day, I am a full-time mother wrangling chaos, folding endless laundry, and navigating the wild wilderness of motherhood. By night—or whenever I can snatch twenty uninterrupted minutes—I plunge headfirst into the dark, magical, and deeply unnerving realms of fiction. I hail from the lands of England, a town called Leighton Buzzard, big name, big fun. My favourite kinds of stories to write are that of high fantasy, dark fantasy and horror fiction.

Speculative fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, a dash of romance, and a healthy dose of existential dread. My stories are made to explore—expect the unexpected as I shine a flashlight into the unknown.