K. Aten
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[ay-ten]
Writing sapphic heroines into existence one story at a time
Unpublished Fiction
WIPs, Original fiction, & Fan Fiction
WIP
(Works In Progress)
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Paradise Lost and Found
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Words: 89,000 - COMING 2024
“Welcome to Paradise Island Resort, where we specialize in sun, sand, and self-improvement.”
Jess entered middle-age single, bitter, and lonely. Even her friends have noticed her downward spiral into anger and resentment. Jess has a chance to find herself again and start making positive changes when she wins a self-help vacation to the beautiful Paradise Island Resort.
Despite spending the past few years with her emotions on ice, the warm tropical climate and hotter resort manager, Lucia Cruz, succeed in thawing her heart. Jess falls for Lucia, knowing that her vacation stay was limited. Four weeks is hardly long enough when love is on the line. Jess will need to make some tough choices about the rest of her life when her time is up. She’s vowed to be a better person but it’s on Jess to put her heart and soul into it. As long as she holds hope in her heart, anything is possible.
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Now and Us
Genre: Science Fiction
Words: 9,300
Each step creates branching new paths of reality for the ones to follow, like the barbs of a feather, or veins on a leaf. And every soul in existence walks them all.
I found the point where my reality merges with another. An alternate universe. Someone else found it too. I have no idea what’s going on but there is a woman reading and responding to the words in my daily thought journal. The person on the other side is intelligent and insightful, and I’ve discovered in a few short entries that we have a lot in common. My evening routine just got a lot more interesting.
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In Love with the Moon
[A Myth World Novel]
Genre: Fantasy
Words: 2,000
Thousands of years before the great Cataclysm of Aeschar, the Goddess Celestia blessed a wolf pack with intelligence, memory, and magic for saving her child. Generations later, the youngest daughter of the Lupanee Wolf King risks it all for the love of a two-legger.
Luna Syreni was fascinated by humans, especially Princet Andreia of Menia, a renowned wolf hunter. She trades her wolf song to a witch in order to take human form and follow her heart. But the witch has two rules. Luna must win Andreia’s heart at the end of six full moons, and Andreia may not kill a single wolf during their courtship. Should either of them fail, the witch will keep Luna’s magic forever and use it to take over the Lupanee.
Luna’s only hope is that Andreia’s love proves strong enough to stay her sword.
This is a loose retelling of the Little Mermaid that's also a werewolf origin story. The novel takes place in the Myth World, a thousand years before Elemental Attraction.
Chosen of Artemis
(Mystery of the Makers: book 3)
Genre: Historical Fantasy
Words: 20,000
The rise of Queen Orianna of the Telequire Tribe.
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Original Fiction
(Click the title to read on Archive of Our Own)
(Arrow of Artemis book 3.5)
Genre: Historical Fantasy Erotica
Words: 4,003
This is a short story that takes place after The Sagittarius.
Promises kept earn the sweetest rewards.
The Scientere and the Captain's Case
(Adventures of an Awkward Scientere: book1)
Genre: Sci-Fi Erotica
Words: 11,257
My challenge: "Write about something funny that happened to a humorous inventor who collects space trash."
What happens when a crazy inventor discovers a shiny metal case floating outside her space station? The Scientere Exremus is always looking for inspiration for her inventions so she hauls the item in. And it stands to reason that such a curious bit of space trash would have a homing beacon. The case itself is actually very valuable to Cpt. Dasho of The Galleum. That lost item will bring essential relief to the ship captain's pressing problem and she desperately wants it back. Their meeting poses an interesting question that only rigorous science can answer.
The Scientere and the Denobian Device
(Adventures of an Awkward Scientere: book2)
Genre: Sci-fi Erotica
Words: 12,068
Scientere Extremus Amedrelda Thotzmith has been traveling on The Galleum for three months, and the science has been excellent the entire time. Cpt. Jinda Dasho makes sure her Chief Science Officer is always well attended. After all, scientific conclusions were an important part of daily life aboard the star-drive ship. Their routine is shaken when the Galleum takes on its first titillarian passenger. Titillarians and scienteres were as different as night and day, and until one highly unusual trip on the Galleum no one ever would have guessed there could be an intersection of the two professions.
Classic Science Fiction
Fan Fiction
(Click the title to read on Archive of Our Own)
Sci-Fi Erotica
Supergirl
#Supercorp
Hero
Swift
Suit
Nanite
Tech
Alien
Fandom: Supergirl CW
Series Word Count: 82,440
This is a collection of short one-shot fiction pieces about the first kiss between Kara Danvers/Supergirl and Lena Luthor. No story in the series is related to another, they are all one-shots.
Part 1 of Supercorp First Kisses Collection
Word Count: 2,420
Someone is thirsty, but who is it?
Part 2 of Supercorp First Kisses Collection
Word Count: 5,136
Kara is always sorry, always saying the words. But Lena doesn't put the clues together until she hears those same words come from Supergirl's lips.
Part 3 of Supercorp First Kisses Collection
Word Count: 6,593
How does a poor reporter manage to keep herself fed with the necessary amount of calories needed to save National City over and over? Lena Luthor makes it her mission to assuage that hunger.
Part 4 of Supercorp First Kisses Collection
Word Count: 6,446
Saving the word is hard, exhaustion is sometimes a certainty. And it's nice to have a someone safe when you fall asleep.
Part 5 of Supercorp First Kisses Collection
Word Count: 7,090
Lena's heart breaks when she realizes that that there is something going on between Kara Danvers and Supergirl. Because the truth is, she has fallen completely in love with her best friend.
Part 6 of Supercorp First Kisses Collection
Word Count: 7,881
When Supergirl is blinded saving Lena Luthor from a terrorist attack, they must trust and rely on each other to be safe again. But as they grow closer in the aftermath of the hero's injury, secrets are unveiled.
Part 7 of Supercorp First Kisses Collection
Word Count: 8,207
The President and Colonel Hayley are on a witch hunt for Supergirl's secret identity and in a last ditch effort to protect her sister, Alex makes yet another sacrifice. Supergirl shatters with lost hope and turns to Lena Luthor fix the broken pieces.
Part 8 of Supercorp First Kisses Collection
Word Count: 2,146
In a slightly different world, with a different first meeting, Lena Luthor and Kara Danvers learn that infatuation can strike at any time. And the spark of infatuation is all you need to realize the promise of more.
Part 9 of Supercorp First Kisses Collection
Word Count: 5,581
Alex gives newly-out pan Kara bad dating advice when it comes to a mysterious woman at the bar. Kara’s terrible pickup lines give her away when she meets the same woman later in the evening as Supergirl.
Part 10 of Supercorp First Kisses Collection
Word Count: 11,475
Alex gives newly-out pan Kara bad dating advice when it comes to a mysterious woman at the bar. Kara’s terrible pickup lines give her away when she meets the same woman later in the evening as Supergirl.
Part 11 of Supercorp First Kisses Collection
Word Count: 19,465
Kryptonians are 1 of 10 races not allowed to immigrate to Earth by the time Kara arrives. So, she registers as a metahuman speedster. When she becomes the National City superhero known as Swift' aka the blue blur, or blue Swift, she is diligent about hiding the rest of her true abilities. At least until she becomes acquainted with the Lena Luthor.
Genre: Sci-fi Superhero
Words: 151,000
The world has come a long way since the Metahuman Uprising. Despite all efforts to prevent the spreading knowledge of aliens, people knew the origins of metahumans so it wasn’t a stretch to accept aliens living among them and vote protections into law a few years later. Because of the rise of people of power, regulations outlawing vigilantism were enacted shortly after that. All the major cities were once again safe and secure under the protection of the DEO and heroes like the Martian Manhunter, Batwoman, and the Flash. But what happens when someone shows up who is more powerful than anyone else on Earth?
This isn't a story about DEO agents or heroes. This particular tale encompasses the age-old notions of loss, love, and found family. One new vigilante seeks to honor her family's legacy as the last of her house, and protect the person she's desperately in love with from a metahuman with a heart full of revenge. She won’t let laws or the DEO stop her.
Fandom: Supergirl CW
Word Count: 30,642
Chapters: 11
Halloween with a twist writing challenge for my writing group...which I turned into #supercorp fanfic. Because of course I did.
A traveling musician named Kara Danvers gets more than she bargained for when she accidentally wanders into a Halloween party in the middle of nowhere while she’s searching for an RV park after a gig. Lena Luthor is no ordinary hostess and happens to love music.
My Love Tastes Like Chicken Soup
Fandom: Supergirl CW
Word Count: 1,360
Status: Finished
Kara Danvers is a powerful witch on a short leash. The one person she wants, Lena Luthor, is untouchable, literally. Can Kara's love language of food erase the boundary between them? This is obviously an alternate universe fic.
Xena: Warrior Princess
Fandom: Xena: Warrior Princess
Words: 66,708
Chapters: 19/19
Status: Finished
There is a strength that lies in loss, and loss comes to all with enough time. Gabrielle struggles with Xena's death in the years following the events in Jappa. When she reaches the breaking point of her grief, a very good friend suggests reconnecting with the Amazons. What she learns about herself will shape the future, and become a tale to be told for generations to follow. (Post FIN)