Zhara Serage 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

A Ballad of Roots and Rituals: Chapter 6- Petals Sylv stood in the Illiüve, arms crossed. From her place, floating where the second floor of the inn would be, she could see Thillia’s spirit–a mere emerald outline–across the city. Her cousin was c…

Chapter 6 of a Ballad of Roots and Rituals is up!

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A Ballad of Roots and Rituals: Chapter 5- New Life Thillia emerged from her tempered meditation a little later than first light. Traveling with Sylv had been a wonderful experience but it seemed that after a year of being in close proximity, while …

Chapter 5 of a Ballad of Roots and Rituals is up! Follow Sylv and Thillia during their first days in a new city!

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A Ballad of Roots and Rituals: Chapter 4- A Wrinkle The wild and ragged stone of the canyon gave way to paved stone. The weary travelers stepped onto the path at an angle. Following its shape away from the city walls Sylv noticed that a gradual path…

Alright, we return to Sylv and Thillia's story as they enter the walled city of Auclaire!

Uploads might be a bit sporadic as I am still not feeling the best, but they shall continue!

Thank you and enjoy the new Chapter!

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Thank you so much, i appreciate that

Hello those of you who follow this page. I have been having a terrible time in the wake of the loss of my dear pet.

That being said: I also miss uploading chapters of A Ballad of Roots and Rituals.

So I will tentatively be uploading a chapter this coming Friday.

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My darling cat passed on earlier this week so i will be suspending publication of my wordpress serials for a bit

Thank you to those of u who have been following along.

Publication will resume once i am doing better.

thank you for understanding.

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Light in the Dark- Chapter 3 “The producer will see you now.” The television abruptly turned off and slid back into the wall. A door to her left opened. Nel sat up, the orange slice hanging out of her mouth slid to the floor. …

Short Story Sunday! Light in the Dark Chapter 3 is up (a bit of a shorter chapter thanks to a series of migraines)

Nel meets the enigmatic Producer!

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A Ballad of Roots and Rituals Chapter 3- Of Honor and Pride In the North, far past Calist and Arbor, stood a mountain range that separated the frozen tundra from the verdant Sin’thurel plains. Within this range there was a single narrow pass that let travel…

It's once again time for another Chapter of A Ballad Roots and Rituals! Trouble is brewing in Inth as shadowy forces begin their journey south.

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Light in the Dark- Chapter 2 Matilda’s engines let out a whine and a shake similar to a geriatric dog complaining about its still joints. The landing gear creaked and its joint nearly snapped but it managed to hold together. N…

Another Short story Sunday! Light in the Dark Chapter 2 is up!

continue Captain Nel's journey aboard a strange television space station:

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Ballad of Roots and Ritual-Chapter 2: Stepping Stone After a week of riding, only breaking for an hour or two–and not sleeping for more than a few minutes–the border of Devries was in sight. The Allard Canyon divided Devries from Avenri and acted as …

Ballad of Roots and Ritual Chapter 2 is Up!

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Short Story Sunday: Light in the Dark Chapter 1 The ship came to a harsh stop as the thrusters cut out suddenly. Nel was thrown from her bunk, thankful that she had lowered it before they entered the Flume. Instead of a dislocated shoulder, she …

it's short story sunday so Light in the Dark Chapter 1 has been published!

Follow Captain Nel on her search for a VHS tape of the unaired finale of her favorite serial.

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A Ballad of Roots and Rituals: Chapter 1- The Calling Sylv plunked the strings of her lute as she fumbled for the right notes. She groaned, pushed her hair behind her pointed ears, and tried again. And again, and again, to find the right words but the…

A Ballad of Roots and Rituals Chapter one up now!

A chapter of this story will be published every other Friday!

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Zhara's Books A place for free stories that are updated biweekly on Fridays and Sundays!

My official blog is live! I'll be publishing free stories biweekly on Fridays and Sundays!
(First Friday Chapter up now!)

I hope any who check it out love the stories as much as I love writing them!

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Between life and various reasons caused by chronic illness it has been slow going on my main projects but I am aiming to launch something exciting in the next few weeks that will hopefully bridge the gap and give you all a better taste of my writing ^_^

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I know i dont post on her as much as I should but know that the drafting process for my main project is going amazingly!

And heres a little sequence of the MC (Hatem) and her friend Alyaka dealing with a Mercenary sent by the antagonists
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Proud of this description in the first draft of a spicy fantasy romance (currently untitled) I'm working on
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Watching asmr mukbang videos like my life depends on it only to realize ive been writing without eating for seven hours.

Writing with both of my main characters POVs side by side has really helped me thread their interactions together better

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Bouncing back from November writers block has been a hassle but im finally making progress on my WIPs again

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If there was one book I could erase from my mind and read again for the first time it would be the Unbroken by CL Clark

I'll never forget the wonder of reading it the first time and experiencing the joy of feeling truly represented in a fantasy setting

As a break from my three fantasy WIPs i'm writing a scifi story and it is a very interesting experience to go from explaning magic systems to explaining why the main character's ship has narrow tunnels connecting its rooms instead of hallways.

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One of my current WIPs is set in a cassette tape scifi setting where comedically evil corporations rule.
The main character is a freelance cargo hauler who ends up exploring scarily outdated space station beyond corporate ruled sectors.

Hello I'm Zhara a (currently unplublished) queer arabic author currently working on their first novel.

If you enjoy arabic inspired fantasy and comedic taks classical high fantasy, feel free to follow to keep up with my progress!

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My goal is to put another 1000+ words into my current fantasy WIPs. Finally getting to the meat of the plot in these drafts and its so exciting!

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