About Yaasha Moriah
Hello and welcome to my all-things-speculative-fiction website!
I was born in Vermont and spent most of my life there. I love adventures, whether they take place outdoors or in the pages of a book.
When I was about eight years old, I wrote a story about a stamp that died after a little boy ripped it off an envelope.
Mom: "Don't make the stamp die."
Me: "But Mom, a stamp can't survive that!"
I was a seriously morbid kid.
That stamp story was significant for two reasons.
First, it demonstrated that I had an imagination, which is kind of important if you're going to write fantasy and science fiction.
Secondly, it hinted that I tend to appreciate darker themes. If you read my stories, they're mostly "nobledark" (a mid-point between the opposite styles of noblebright and grimdark). Think Lord of the Rings: the evil is profound, the war costs a great deal, and people die or remain permanently wounded, but the light still wins in the end.
The painful. The beautiful. The numinous.
That's what I write about.
Well, I've come a long way since my stamp story. In 2013, I published my first book (incidentally, not speculative fiction) and since then, I've published several speculative fiction novelettes. In 2015, my short story "Wings Beneath Water" earned Silver Honorable Mention in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest, and the expanded version is now available as a novella. My most recent published work is my superhero novella, Without a Vision, which you can read about here.
I was born in Vermont and spent most of my life there. I love adventures, whether they take place outdoors or in the pages of a book.
When I was about eight years old, I wrote a story about a stamp that died after a little boy ripped it off an envelope.
Mom: "Don't make the stamp die."
Me: "But Mom, a stamp can't survive that!"
I was a seriously morbid kid.
That stamp story was significant for two reasons.
First, it demonstrated that I had an imagination, which is kind of important if you're going to write fantasy and science fiction.
Secondly, it hinted that I tend to appreciate darker themes. If you read my stories, they're mostly "nobledark" (a mid-point between the opposite styles of noblebright and grimdark). Think Lord of the Rings: the evil is profound, the war costs a great deal, and people die or remain permanently wounded, but the light still wins in the end.
The painful. The beautiful. The numinous.
That's what I write about.
Well, I've come a long way since my stamp story. In 2013, I published my first book (incidentally, not speculative fiction) and since then, I've published several speculative fiction novelettes. In 2015, my short story "Wings Beneath Water" earned Silver Honorable Mention in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest, and the expanded version is now available as a novella. My most recent published work is my superhero novella, Without a Vision, which you can read about here.
Five random facts about me
I love spiders. As I was growing up, when my sisters screamed and ran away from an eight-legged intruder, I squealed with delight and ran toward it. I even let spiders crawl on my hands and created a fictional society called APES, the Arachnid Protection and Equality Society.
I hike barefoot. It sounds all hippie to say it, but you connect so much better to God's beautiful earth when you climb a mountain without shoes. Try it! I dare ya.
My favorite color is purple. My Kindle cover is purple, my phone case is purple, and you'll notice that purple tends to show up prominently in both my website and my books. (My novella Wings Beneath Water is a good example of a book that features purple.) I consider purple the perfect blend of red's passion and blue's serenity.
I've been thrown from a horse. Which probably doesn't say much about my horsemanship, but it made me feel that I had been baptized into equine life, something that, as a fantasy author, has always somehow been important to me.
I'm an ENFP. If you need a mental image of an ENFP, imagine a fairy flitting through Mordor: on the surface, so much sparkle and childlike wonder, but underneath it all, a deep understanding of life and human nature. Here's my Pinterest board about life as an ENFP author.
I hike barefoot. It sounds all hippie to say it, but you connect so much better to God's beautiful earth when you climb a mountain without shoes. Try it! I dare ya.
My favorite color is purple. My Kindle cover is purple, my phone case is purple, and you'll notice that purple tends to show up prominently in both my website and my books. (My novella Wings Beneath Water is a good example of a book that features purple.) I consider purple the perfect blend of red's passion and blue's serenity.
I've been thrown from a horse. Which probably doesn't say much about my horsemanship, but it made me feel that I had been baptized into equine life, something that, as a fantasy author, has always somehow been important to me.
I'm an ENFP. If you need a mental image of an ENFP, imagine a fairy flitting through Mordor: on the surface, so much sparkle and childlike wonder, but underneath it all, a deep understanding of life and human nature. Here's my Pinterest board about life as an ENFP author.
My Favorite Speculative Fiction Books
What You'll Find Here
When you're here, you'll discover stories with all sorts of strange and fantastical things, like:
Every post is centered on something related to speculative fiction. Sometimes I talk about things I commonly see in stories, review a fantasy or sci-fi book, or post a short story, an episode of a longer story, or an episode of an interactive serial story--'cause there's no better way to appreciate fiction than to simply read it!
And, of course, you can dive into my longer fiction works if you want something more in-depth and intricate.
And, of course, you can dive into my longer fiction works if you want something more in-depth and intricate.
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