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RachaelRunes (Adria West)

just a girl from The Void

RachaelRunes

I spend a lot of time thinking and dreaming inside my own head, but always try to get along with people if they try to get along with me.
I am not a hopeless optimist, but neither am I a pessimist. The glass is both half empty and half full. 
My goal is to become a published author, as writing has been part of my life since I was very small.  Regardless of whether my works become published I will always write and enjoy the marvelous feeling of creation and discovery that comes from it.

I love poetry, horror fiction, fantasy, comedy, the paranormal, science, philosophy, and exploring the surprisingly thin line between what is creepy and what is hilarious and absurd.
Psychology also fascinates me and I'm a good listener and can put things in perspective, so I may become a psychologist or something of the like. 
Insanity, dreams, and frightening entities from other worlds feature heavily in my works, many of them from a plane called The Void or Humanity's Canvas, a reflection of thought and emotion filtered through alien intellects. 

Despite my intrigue with dark and morbid subjects I am generally a lighthearted person who will care about you until you give me a good reason not to.

Among my favorite authors are Dean Koontz, Stephen King, H.P Lovecraft, George Orwell, Edgar Allan Poe, and many of my friends both here and elsewhere.

Favorite music to listen to includes Muse, Evanescence, A Perfect Circle, The Birthday Massacre, Radiohead, Entwine, Silent Hill soundtrack...the list goes on.

My main (unfinished!) novels are...

The Dreamfeeder Molly Harland lives alone on a quiet country road in Mellowbrook Michigan, and the simple, reclusive life she once lived is about to be torn apart. Something is growing in her storm cellar, and in the minds of anyone who lets it take them when they sleep. If she doesn't use her strong will to fight its demented, hypnotic influence, everything she cares about could eventually be destroyed. Its the first, somewhat rambly draft, and I'm eventually starting the second one, which will be trimmed up and polished, with new elements added and some removed.

New Minds: a semi-dystopian story set around 2044. Still mostly in the brainstorming stage but I've already introduced some characters, concepts, and plot points. Focuses on artificial intelligence, controlling government and corporations, environmental catastrophe, and the ensuing battles for domination over citizens and resources. 

Spookymen A new-ish story very slowly in the works about ancient bogeymen-like beings and the people haunted by them.

The Soul Screamers A short piece about a dreamer's journey into the Void to meet one of its inhabitants: the embodiment of despair and disorder.

A Deal And A Handshake Based on the internet-born legend of the Slender Man, a tall, spidery humanoid abomination in a business suit who stalks people and drives them insane, or kills them, depending on the writer. Those who have 'endeared' themselves to him often become proxies who do his twisted bidding, so I decided to write a story about that.

I also have a few collabs.

Written In Stone About an ex-policeman turned traveling salesman who gains powers from an inhuman criminal and tries to ignore them until one night in a Kentucky motel, where hordes of demonic energy vampires run rampant. And he has to stop them.

Poetry with odd, absurdist twists and Lovecraftian humor. Wait, what?  Eldritch Haiku  Hilarity Haiku  Eldritch Christmas Carols 

A hideous creature from another dimension hosts its own show on the Food Channel. Chaos ensues.   The Eldritch Cooking Show  

And, last but certainly not least a story of mine that Chaosbeing duplicated and edited long ago to turn into a collab. No one ever contributed, so if anyone's interested in adding, we'd both appreciate it.  Shadowwalkers: The Beginning

Anywho, enough rambling. I enjoy reading what people have to say and discovering talent either budding or blossomed. If you read my work, I will gladly return the favor.

 

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"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? - Jean Jacques Rousseau ************************************************** "Maybe when all was said and done, the imagination was the most powerful of all weapons. It was the imagination of the human race that had allowed it to dream of a life beyond cold caves and of a possible future in the stars." ---Dean Koontz ************************************************** "Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere." G. K. Ch"

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