Naomi ARTEMI

Short Story Excerpt

In a society where grief is displayed by ripping ones dress and mending it with black thread, the wearer of the blackest dress has mourned the most of anyone alive. So much so that her ceremonial spool runs out of thread and she must travel to the Temple of the Threadmakers to seek another. 

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A 'freeformer' (shapeshifter) predator in Paris practices being human.

Part 1 of 3 - Excerpt

You live in a world after the sun never rose, navigating the dark dark in search of flux (light photons) that you can exchange for a drug that gives you visions of sight and of your "lost one," your estranged husband, James.

Short Story Excerpt

A poor to riches cautionary tale in a magical realism world.

First 60 Pages of Novel

Yuri, young Red Army soldier, dodges a bullet destined for him. A curse. Wherever he goes, Death (personified as Likho from Russian folklore) peruses. Every time he evades her, she catches the person nearest him instead.

Prologue & First Chapter

The youngest fire foals with the brightest glowing spots like to ask to hear the story of the magick tamer who first befriended their kind, and the fire deer who burned the foes of the realm with her.

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When an unusual cloud forms over the city it becomes a tourist attraction, much to the chagrin of local, Amethyst, a Cloud City Coffee barista.

Flock Together

This piece is from a collection of short tales with big morals about forest animals and their human-like follies.

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One of Medusa's victims, now on display in the Greek and Roman Art collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a broken statue head, recalls the events that led him to be turned to stone.

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In a world where technologically advanced cattle live underground in shipping containers, one young bull finds his way to the surface, full of natural marvels.