Ella Murphy (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇦

Forced to serve the Fates. Tasked to observe, remove stray threads in the world’s story.
Persephone never intended to fall in love. Never wanted to defy Fate.
When given a difficult choice, she follows her heart – and must survive the consequences.
Archive of Memory: GUARDIAN
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A grungy bar. Unruly bikers. Blood spilled by the edge of a knife.
Jaye thinks her life is over, doomed to wear cuffs & sit behind prison bars. Cursed to be her father’s daughter.
What she does not know is her story was never meant to end here.
Archive of Memory: NIGHTFALL
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In a single moment, a life can change - or an entire timeline can vanish. On the sharp edge of a knife; in the snapping of Fate's thread.

The past is always a complicated thing. Open the book. Reveal the secrets.

Archive of Memory: Guardian & Nightfall. 52k words.
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On the edge of a knife, everything changes.
Jaye thinks her life is over behind prison bars. Her journey has just begun.
♠️complex family relationships
♠️visceral fight scenes
♠️unapologetically butch MC
♠️from early teens to adulthood
Archive of Memory: NIGHTFALL
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A single choice can change the world. Or destroy an entire timeline.
Persephone did not expect falling in love to cause so many repercussions.
📜partially inspired by Greek myth
📜multi POV
📜told in journal excerpts
📜supernatural elements
Archive of Memory: GUARDIAN
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Defy the Fates. Uncover a painful past.
A young woman pulled from her life and forced into servitude. Another running from the trauma in her past.
📚multi POV 📚choices made, consequences ensue
Archive of Memory: Guardian & Nightfall.
52k words
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using firefox on linux - everything seems to be working just fine for me :) (I hope it gets fixed for you!)

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When doing research, we often think reading articles or visiting places or zooming around StreetView.

With my WIP "The Reflections Saga", the most valuable help comes from a Newfoundlander friend.

You can learn so much from the people who live in the places you are writing.

Thank you <3

Sketch of Zachary Doran by the author. Zachary is dressed in a casual suit and button shirt, the jacket open, a pair of sunglasses hooked onto one of the buttons of his half-unbuttoned shirt. He his looking over his right shoulder at a mirror. His curly hair is short and messy, a shadow of stubble on his jaw. The mirror is not reflecting Zachary, but instead contains the image of Jaye Avenheart. A bit of the back of her leather jacket is visible in the cracked surface. Watermark over the image reads: Ella Murphy. Nos Sumus Stellae. The Reflections Saga, main character Zachary Doran.

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Get to know Zachary Doran: main character of The Reflections Saga, my WIP

📁Narrative voice like a Noir Detective Novel
📁Solves problems by talking
📁Bisexual and everyone knows it
📁Loves his 1982 Corvette almost as much as he loves his husband
📁Longs for the 80's (If you couldn't tell)

*takes notes* Will look into it, thank you!

I shall pass your message along ;) They were a great help for getting Jaye's NF accent right in Nightfall - I wanted to write her words they way she says them, & it was tricky at times to make it authentic & understandable. (I watched Republic of Doyle so many times for uh... research reasons XD)

Such a beautiful dialect, truly. <3 (And a beautiful province!) I had so much fun learning about all the colourful sayings and nuances - also thankful I have a reader from Newfoundland to help me out!

Teaser for The Reflections Saga. Tagine: Her story is not over yet. A sketch of Jaye's bright blue eyes with torn edges is below the tagline text. She is looking off to the side. Below the sketch is the following: Zachary Doran has it all. A husband, two kids, a successful Private Investigation agency with his father Eamon, and an awesome 1982 Corvette. His peaceful life in St John's Newfoundland is shattered when a woman named Jaye Avenheart arrives from New York, seeking to hire the Dorans for a case. A case that throws a secret Zachary's father has kept for nearly 40 years into the light... The Reflections Saga. A reworking of the original Reflections story collection. Coming soon.

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Current WIP: The Reflections Saga
Jaye Avenheart's story is not over yet. 👀

🪞Sequel to Nightfall
🪞Expect Newfoundland English and a lot of it (also a fair amount of Scottish Gaelic)
🪞Family secrets and the fallout
🪞Unexpected love
🪞Tagline: "There are shadows in every reflection"

Guardian Playlist Conjure One featuring Kristy Thirsk - Ghost Fall Out Boy - My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light 'em up) Papa Roach - Even If It Kills Me Starset - Icarus - Trials Cyroshell - Trigger

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Archive of Memory: Guardian playlist

A surprising mix of punk and alt rock/orchestral

(Guardian is a fantasy borrowing from Greek/Pagan myths told in journal excerpts)

A chalk-board like image with the list of songs in the Nightfall Playlist. Songs are as follows: James Blake - Retrograde Ruelle - Carry You typo.s - Look At Me Now Tracy Chapman - Give Me One Reason Evanescence - Whispers Demi Lovato - Still Alive Papa Roach - Born For Greatness Ruelle - Fire Meets Fate Bishop Briggs - White Flag Sinéad O'Connor - No Man's Woman Joan Jett - Crimson and Clover Portishead - Glory Box

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The Archive of Memory: Nightfall playlist

Classic 90's / early 2000's vibes (with a sprinkling of 2010's and beyond)

Car swerving into off-ramp meme Sign above road points straight and right. The straight arrow is labeled "actually dealing with trauma". The arrow pointing to the right says "punching people instead". Underneath, a car labeled "Jaye", the name of the main character in Nightfall, is swerving to the right, implying that Jaye would rather fight others in the MMA cage than talk about her past.

the if I had a trophy meme from The Fairly OddParents. 1st image: animated man in dress shirt pointing at dusty pedestal in a gallery like space. The text reads "Kit: this is where I would put my champion trophy if I had won" 2nd image: the animated man is angry and is screaming. Text reads "Curse you Jaye Avenheart" in reference to the main character of Nightfall, to whom Kit loses an important fight.

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Have some memes for Archive of Memory: Nightfall

On the edge of a knife, a life will change

♠️complex family relationships
♠️visceral fight scenes
♠️unapologetically butch MC
♠️she's broken but we love her
♠️from early teens to adulthood

#CON #LF #YA #A #LGBT ♠️🌈📚

The train crashing into school bus meme. 1st image: Bus with the words "The Fates' plans to destroy the Nephilim" over it rests on a set of train tracks with a train approaching it. 2nd image: The train crashes into the school bus. Text across the front of the train reads "Persephone falling in love."

Shocked Pikachu meme The text reads: Fates - kill your love Persephone - No Fates - shocked Pikachu face image

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Have some memes for Archive of Memory: Guardian

A single choice can change the world. Or destroy an entire timeline.

📜partially inspired by Greek myth
📜multi POV
📜told in journal excerpts
📜supernatural elements
📜... 1st draft was almost entirely handwritten

#F #YA #A #LGBT ♠️🌈📚

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Doing DVPit promo at the moment!
Focusing on revisions to the Nightfall sequel Reflections. Never made so many drafts for a story ever. Sixth one in 10 yrs. Yes, I wrote the prequel after the original story.

Advice: Read aloud spooky stories when voice is hoarse. Adds atmosphere >:)

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Guardian: from Ch 1

As Keeper, I was tasked with recording the Nephilim, aiding the Fates in eliminating them.
Restoring and pruning the story to the original vision, or so they believed. Changing even part of a single thread can undo untold millions of others.
I did not do my duty.

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Nightfall: Prologue

“Jayne Aiden, get yer arse to the table, now!”
My father’s voice blasts up the stairs to my room. He always uses my full name when angry, which tends to be all the time. I burrow further into my comforter, turning up the volume on my Walkman so I don’t have to hear him.

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Archive of Memory - Guardian: opening lines

To understand, you have to go back. Way back, to before the beginning, and even before that.
To the time before there was time.
The Fates contemplate the new world, separate from it yet commanding.

thank you :)

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Archive of Memory - Nightfall: opening lines of Ch 1

The bar is dark, as most are. The main room set so far back from the entrance, there are no windows.
Shadows lurk in every corner. Half-burnt bulbs hanging above round tables that have been chipped away at by time and smashed bottles.

🥂 cheers to that! :D

Black and white pencil sketch of Jaye Avenheart, main character of Nightfall and The Reflections Saga. Jaye is sitting on the seat of her vintage 1969 Honda CB750 motorcycle, wearing a leather jacket, simple buttoned shirt and jeans. Her arms are slightly crossed, a bit of the tattoo up her arms visible on both wrists. Her dark hair is cut short, the front swept upwards in a faux hawk style. Her gaze is directed at the viewer. A black feather earring dangles from her left ear. Her face is square-ish and androgynous. The rear fender/light, part of the rear wheel, part of the side, and seat of the vintage Honda are visible. A watermark across the image reads: Ella Murphy, Nos Sumus Stellae; Nightfall & Reflections main character, Jaye Avenheart.

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Get to know Jaye Avenheart: MC of Nightfall

♠️Irish-Newfoundlander, grew up in New York City
♠️Solves problems with her fists
♠️Unapologetic butch ace lesbian
♠️Family is... complicated
♠️Trusts no-one
♠️Loves her vintage '69 Honda CB750 a little too much
♠️She's broken but we love her

A drawing of the main character from Guardian, Persephone. She is kneeling, holding her sword with her right hand, letting the blade rest on her shoulder. Her left hand rests on her raised left knee. She looks older, but also young. Her hair is shaved on the sides, a vibrant white mohawk that fades to black at the edges. She is wearing a leather vest with a white fur collar, simple pants, and a single fingerless glove on her left hand. Her right hand is scaled like a dragon, claws sharp, fish-like fins at her elbow where the scales become smaller and fewer. There is a scale-like tattoo on her left shoulder. The sword she carries is ancient, with a long handle and a long diamond-shaped blade. There is the upper half of an animal skull tied to the hilt, the fangs resting on either side of the upper part of the blade. Watermark across the image reads: Ella Murphy, Nos Sumus Stellae. Guardian: Archive of Memory, main character Persephone.

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Get to know Persephone Kœrá, MC of Archive of Memory: Guardian

🗡️Looks badass, is cinnamon roll
🗡️Most ambitious reader you will ever meet
🗡️Knows many world secrets but swear words? Forget it
🗡️Given mystery mission by the Fates and has no idea what she's doing
🗡️Proud ace lesbian
🗡️ Is 5'3"

A collection of black and white images related to Guardian. 1. An old mansion, surrounded by trees. 2. An animal skull resting in grass. 3. Photograph of a lion's face. 4. Dragon statue in Ljubljana, Slovenia. 5. Grey smoke on a black background. 6. A gloomy and foggy forest path.

A collection of nine images relating to the story Nightfall. 1. A bird sits on barbed wire, silhouetted against the sky. 2. The back of a standard prison shirt reading "Inmate." 3. Clasped hands resting in cell bars. 4. The statue of Liberty at night, crowned by a crescent moon. 5. A drawing of young Jaye. Her hair is long and pulled back, her arms crossed and heavily bandaged. Sketch by the author. 6. An image of blood droplets on tile floor. 7. A woman with a bandaged shoulder. 8. An overhead picture of the women's prison Taconic Correctional Facility in New York state. (not an actual location in the story, simply inspiration) 9. The words "Cell Block B" on a brick wall.

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Archive of Memory - Guardian and Nightfall

Defy the Fates. Uncover a painful past. A single moment can change everything.

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In a single moment, a life can change - or an entire timeline can vanish.
On the edge of a knife; in the snapping of Fate's thread.
The past is always a complicated thing.
Open the book. Reveal the secrets. Archive of Memory: Guardian and Nightfall. 52k words.
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The past can be a complicated thing - and for Jaye Avenheart, her history is no exception. Because no matter how long one tries... one cannot simply outrun the past. Nightfall spans decades of Jaye's life, from fractured childhood to finding a career in the MMA cage.
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An AITA pitch? Genius! (love this premise, sounds like a LOT of fun)