“You never know how old your soul is, so each lifetime you begin anew.”
M. M. Chamberlain
This is an ever expanding list of my work and small excerpts of them. Most poetry will be put under poetry anthologies, which is a work in progress.
Fantasy, FICTION, SCI-FI
Bindings (Of Fate, Of Faith, Of Family, books 1, 2, and 3)
This trilogy follows the rise and fall of the criminal king Moriarty, a fugitive dragon who took land from the true Queen of Archia.
From the big name to the small cause, there are multiple stories to be told under the reign of the criminal king, firstly with an elf named Sui Lorraine. She spearheads the movement to dethrone Moriarty, fueled by justice and empathy for those unjustly wronged in society.
Midnight Everlast
The Rot had been released after a terrible, selfish choice. A mining team bore too far into the hard rock beneath a fruitful island, one of the last untouched spots for resources. They broke through, into a cave with a mold like substance that ate away at every organic substance it touched. No known predator, no known cure.
The only places safe from the Rot are the Citadels. Every scientist on Earth is given near unlimited funds to find out what the hell went wrong, and if humanity has enough time left to fix it.
Short stories, personal essays
Black Star Witch
This is a collection of adventures of the Black Star Witch, Kulavi Maharaj, and her friends in the LA Paranormal Investigators crew. Kulavi’s formative life was symbolized by control, expectations far beyond that of a child, and the searing pain of the tattoo on the back of her neck. The Black Star. She ran away from the “Community” who gave it to her. When she met Jasper and his partners, she found purpose in his crew, able to give her powerful magic to their cause. She has to be careful, though. The cult of the Black Star is always watching for her.
Needle of the Moonlit Record
What really happens after we die? What fills the silence when our songs go silent, and the needle to our record scratches to a halt? This is a short story exploring what I believe would happen had I committed suicide at age 20 when my mental health was the worst. Written through the POV of a spirit who is trapped in their hometown, and their friends return on the anniversary of their death in one last desperate attempt to stay connected.
The Wake
After four once close friends went their separate ways in adulthood, they never expected that the next time they’d see each other was at one of their friends funerals. At April Cavilla’s wake before the funeral, Marvin, Catherine, Lindsey, and Zacharias gravitate towards each other and each share a story about April that the others never knew of. By the end of their reminiscing, it feels like none of them truly knew who April was, but the light in their hearts she left grew stronger than ever.
False House
A personal, nonfiction short story where an unnamed character tries to convince their reflection that a memory they share never happened; But neither of them know what really took place in that time. Read it ((here)).
They Come From the Hills
A nonfiction short story describing the first night that powerful paranoid delusions and hallucinations took over my mind. This short story was submitted, but not accepted, to Black Dogs, Black Tales magazine contest. Read it ((here)).
The Cows Know My Name
We all try to avoid our vices. Some people, like Freddy Ocala, isolate themselves so badly that only the cows know his name. But how did they find out? He didn’t tell them.
“The Cows Know My Name” is a suspense short story from the mind of a schizophrenic and grieving father as he tackles with the loss of his son, and the worsening of his symptoms, and the importance of community.
OTHER PROJECTS
Memoir: All of Our Heads
Through five different journals and diaries lies an eerie day by day retelling, and on the contrary, months of silence, telling of how Schizophrenia and DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) developed within me. Had I not written anything down, and simply suffered in silence, not only would years of my life be gone and unaccountable for, but no one would be able to visualize how stigmatized illnesses can harm someone or how much one person can change once they get the help they need.
World in Acrylic Set
Poems lost in the romance of the sky and the bitterness of the dirt. Each poem asks a question to a different aspect of nature, showing my favorite word as “why”.
Let’s make something together.
Work of M. M. Chamberlain 