My Writing
Published
Autumn Blooms Red (2023)
It's been a decade since Avril's family was exiled to Ordea's smallest province. While not entirely stripped of power, her mother's bitterness blinds her to Avril's needs. So when an old friend of her mother's shows up with plans of rehabilitation, Avril is quick to join. As months pass and no concrete steps are taken, her own approach becomes ever more reckless. After all, she can count on her parents' support. But what's the weight of family in a society striving towards equality?
Orphaned at a young age, Irina clings to her family's traditions in a secular world. She finds little comfort in the State's promises of safety, determined, despite the risks, to help those unable or unwilling to live by the party directive. To her, Avril is a special sort of circumstantial victim, one who's not even aware of her imprisonment. But when her faith revolves around leading others onto the right path, who's to watch that she won't lose herself?
Works in Progress
Grey Withers Spring (TBA)
Direct continuation of ABR.
Status: 42k words in / Rerafting
Undisclosed (TBA)
It's the end of the first semester of Drago's final year at the Commissariat. A promising student, he's still unsure about the subject for his dissertation. Encouraged to leave his comfort zone, he ends up finding more than just the answer to his research question...
Status: 15k words in / Drafting
Prequel (TBA)
The cadre comes together.
Status: Outlined / 2k words
FanFics
- Tales of Greg — slice of life/commedy by @brothershepherd
- Ewa's Corny Corner — 18+ insanity by @mecharene
Timeline
'18 Exodus
Worsening desertification in Ordea's south displaces thousands. Entire communities begin migrating northward, sparking the first major demographic shift of the century.
'19 Moon Colony
Sarana quietly launches the first permanent lunar colony. Publicly promoted as a scientific milestone, the effort is widely seen as a strategic bid to secure refuge beyond a collapsing biosphere.
'33 Ordean War Starts
Mounting pressure from mass southern migration ignites regional tensions across the continent. What begins as scattered unrest escalates into full-scale civil conflict between central administrative centers and newly settled southern populations.
'37 Drago is Born
Birth of Drago Deban.
'38 Jowan Defects
Jowan's defection from Estrata tips the intelligence advantage towards Ordea, undermining Estrata's containment policy while strengthening the forces they aimed to suppress.
'42 Jowan Meets Betrice
A fateful encounter that lays the ideological groundwork for Restoration — the unified movement that will later redefine Ordea's political order.
'43 Restoration Forms
The Restoration officially organizes into a recognizable political force.
'44 Party Merger
The Front of Salvation emerges as a unifying bloc, merging Restoration with splinter factions from rival parties to consolidate power and vision.
'45 Cold Peace
Estrata achieves technological Singularity, but internal conflict among the intelligences prevents intervention. With no decisive advantage, its efforts to steer the Ordean conflict falter. As the internal war in Ordea concludes, a Cold War sets in — borders harden, and rival ideologies between Estrata and the emerging Ordean state solidify into standoff.
'46 Restoration Consolidates
Restoration enacts sweeping reforms: demographic engineering to dissolve ethno-national lines, the abolition of currency, and the extension of legal protections to plants and animals.
'47 Apoptosia
A sweeping purge targets the old guard, dissidents, and war criminals blamed for the continent's collapse. Amid the upheaval, Avril is born. Ewa is executed.
'51 Trial Begins
Betrice, once the central figure of Restoration, stands trial as the sole architect of Apoptosia. The Front of Salvation disavows her, casting blame to preserve its unity.
'52 Exile of Betrice, Mathieu, and Reinier
Half of the original Restoration cadre is cast out as Betrice's legacy threatens party stability. Their exile marks the silent reshaping of Ordea's political mythos.
'56 Karey Oil Disaster
The last major disaster of the era. A massive spill in Karey devastates northern ecosystems, paving the way for Restoration to solidify control over the far north, thus completing continental unification.
'57 Undisclosed
Tensions between original Restoration cadre members and the current governing majority erupt behind closed doors — officially denied, but impossible to ignore.
'65 Autumn Blooms Red
Jowan quietly builds support to bring Betrice back from exile.
'66 Grey Withers Spring
As unrest brews in Lumeni, Jowan seizes the moment to advance his plan to restore Betrice.
