M.A. Ray

Hello, Doctor. I bring you the Seal of Unsettling Feelings, contained within this coffee mug.
I write queer high fantasy horror of the pitchiest kind.

I don’t skip, but I always have to grit my teeth over a lobotomy scene. Oof.

In case I didn’t say, it’s all gay as fuck. Every word is gay. Love and kisses. 😘

OMG. I love it.

Please, Muirrach is showing a million green flags! Don’t you want a man who can walk in four-inch heels? A Shadow Daddy who can make your toes curl? One with a convenient tendency toward the amoral?

Fox would sit across the fire and nibble while he worked, side-on in a folding chair, with a mage-lantern spilling light from the other way. Eagle could see him now, in his oasis of calculations, beautiful like summer. The firelight would touch gold from his rich hair. Every so often his clever golden eyes would dart to Eagle on the other side. His whole perfect face would soften, and he would look on Eagle with pleasure over the golden rims of his glasses. That. That was the gut punch.

Wake up babe, new ELVES VS ALIENS just dropped. In this installment, meet Eagle. Is he a god? Is he a monster? Whatever he is, it’s bored and lonely. Read for free: open.substack.com/pub/menyoral...

I have actually been thinking about this all day, if you can believe it. Many of my characters view themselves as something apart—and they are immortal monsters. They just like it that way.

Your characterization sounds thoughtful, especially since you mentioned they’re always together.

Creepy 👀

a large road sign with the text fuck ICE located on a corner of an intersection in chicago

shout out chicago.

evil queen from snow white and the seven dwarfs wearing a crown Alt: The evil queen from snow white and the seven dwarfs (Disney version) wearing a crown and looking gorgeous with it too

Thank you so much for listening, btw. Right now I’m working on introducing a world of giant moth people who harvest corn. There’s going to be trouble.

Somehow, the paparazzi had not yet found them. Why, Katie wasn’t sure–they’d stayed at the back of the venue for the first couple of songs and Beri had kept his hood up, which obscured his features just a bit. If his glowing skin cast faint, silvery light against the cloth walls around his face, none of the middle-aged zaddies or the more youthful punk purists in attendance had been rude enough to mention it.

Secondly—ELVES VS ALIENS. I love this story. Me and my best friend took characters from our own series and made them talk to each other. This is what came out.

Shells wrote the first chapter. If you want to find out what happened next, read this for free! open.substack.com/pub/menyoral...

…warps around the effect, so it will create (or create gateways to?) other crazy fantasy worlds. It’s portal fantasy within high fantasy, and where I’m setting the scene is often as important as who’s in it, so that’s why I say it’s a character. And you are fully expected to figure it out yourself 😅

Well, one character is the member of an ancient race that rules the nexus of realities, and the other is a young cosmic horror/god/thing, whom fairies worship—so I am aware it’s complicated, lol. But how I have it is that the more magic in one place at one time, the more reality and space…

First and foremost: Elsewhere. This is a pitch-black fairy tale soap opera (queer fantasy/horror) with an uncommon Dude In Distress and a steaming pile of movie-monster villains. Triggers? Most of them, but I’ve been told it’s handled with grace and style.

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Since nobody asked for it: a pinned, continuing megathread of my writing (and co-writing!).
I write mostly fantasy, but with some forays into nonfiction, which I will share as it becomes available to consume.

I could talk about it until people ran away screaming, weeping, sackcloth and ashes 😂

Score! I got in under the wire for In Fog! 🤭

Ooh, I’m spoiled for choice here, it seems.

That sounds like a blast. Switching it up can yield the most fun stuff sometimes.

I am into anything and everything—show me what you’ve got—but I humbly request a warning for any lobotomy scenes.

I really love alien POV myself. (Once I wrote about a tree. Now it’s a young eldritch horror in elfin shape.) A Lich sounds so fun, too.

I’ll look forward to it! Which one would you recommend in the meantime?

It sounds like you’re doing something a little more experimental with POV—is that correct? Which of your characters is the most fun to write about?

A collage of eight short fiction horror covers

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Here they are! Now, some of them do bite but only a few will tear and chew and come back for seconds.

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You can do it. Internet stranger says so. 🤭

I like it! Is this one out too, or a WIP?

Ohoho—you’re on

Tell me about your antagonists—or your structure choices. I’m all eyes.

Tell me more!

So, in a big way, a huge way, an unthinkably vast way (if you will), the setting is also a character—the settings are characters.