S.L Jarrell

"Wake me up, when September ends" continues to be my anthem for this month every year, both as a teacher and as a grieving sister. Still, ploughing on with editing draft 4 and trying to find a home for my science fiction short.

My first published short is available through the trembling with fear newsletter today horrortree.com/trembling-wi...

As I'm just along the coast I'm really looking forward to a convention where I can have my cake and eat it too by going home and sleeping in my own bed ;)

Two white horses, a skull with a crown, fingers dipped in a goblet of blood, two figures embracing, a castle, a redhead with a dagger behind her back and the title: A Gloveless Pact.

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A Gloveless Pact:
14% magic
10% feminine rage
17% evil cults
16% self-fulfilling prophecies
20% politics
20% friends/idiots to lovers
3% "Who did this to you?"

100% memorable characters and richly drawn world with distinct cultures.📖
Visuals by Jemma Flynn

Credit to Visuals to Jenna Flynn!

A moodboard by Jenna Flyn, horses, a skull with a crown, hands dipped into a cup of some dark liquid, possibly blood. Two people hugging in period clothes. A redhead with a dagger behind their back, an ornate castle

@wippit.bsky.social A Gloveless Pact

If my WIP were an AO3 Fic it's tags would be:
#Fantasy #Friendstolovers #Women'swrongs #FeminineRage #Magic #ReligiousConflict. #CinnamonRollHero

For 3 royal mages, graduation is about to get deadly. Can they survive the journey home? Can their friendship?

Through the open door of the lead truck they could still catch snatches of the increasing controlled panic on the radio. The fire was almost to the camp. They could see it galloping down the ridge, heading straight for them.

#WIPSnips

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He was almost at the door when it was flung open. Adrenaline and instinct saved him. With a cry of panic and a blow that would have had his fencing master howling with disapproval, Ruslan hit not his assailant, but their musket. The weapon fired uselessly into the ceiling.

Oh I didn't know you were a fellow teacher. What subject do you teach?

Thanks very much!

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A snippet from my current WIP for the "Different" tag

#WIPSnips | different

In keeping with the prompt, we're somewhere different for this one - back in Sabbat's past, and in a stand-alone short story set well before the main serial.

Also content warnings for suicidal ideation and dysphoria in this snippet

( saranadosfiction.com/2024/01/29/a... )

Here's a selection. Digital drawing of Ruslan Arslan, Male Lead for an in progress novel. A pencil sketch of the female lead, Siska. Finally, some still life art from a Halloween Session.

Gomez is an incredible role model/avatar though. :D

Oh yes I am! :D I'm the down south larper which makes me more elusive than many of the scenes main stays as transport inevitably enters into the finance calculations XD

Thank you for asking :) It's still a little twingy, but a lot, lot better! I can in fact dress myself again which was the main problem.

Hello,

I am new here and very intrigued by the offer, a friend bought me along for the ride ;)

Had a great time at Fantasycon. Came home, made it through one day of work, pulled my back by coughing in the wrong position (?), failed to sleep it off. Had to call in sick because I could not physically bend in a way that allowed me to put socks on.

From the sublime to the ridiculous.