Amanda Starks

Joined September 2018

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Fantasy writer, poet, and hopefully soon-to-be novelist who wants to create safe spaces to talk about mental health. Subscribe to my free newsletter at www.amandastarks.com for updates!

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An End of Gods & Dust: ACT IV. Top Story - June 2025.
“Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.” - Herman Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
By Amanda Starks8 months ago in Chapters
And I Wake to Say Your Name
And I wake to say your name, guided by a false hope, an empty promise - a love fed through a gleaming apple. And yet I break teeth on this skin,
By Amanda Starks8 months ago in Poets
The Greatest of Sinners. Content Warning.
I'll see you when the wrath comes, marbled in flesh with tales to tell, for I have earned a ticket to those hellish gates.
By Amanda Starks8 months ago in Poets
I Doubled My Word Count in Two Months. Top Story - June 2025.
Wow, it's been two months already! To say things spiraled would be an understatement, but amidst the bad news, there is good news too.
By Amanda Starks8 months ago in Writers
Me, My Health, and My Novel. Top Story - April 2025.
As I sit here, I struggle just to get these words out. It's been a rough few weeks. And I'm fed up with it. To make a long, rollercoaster of a story short, I've been sick.
By Amanda Starks10 months ago in Writers
Control is an Illusion
The princess had all she ever wanted right within her grasp. Power, control - a crown. It pulsated a supernatural force against her skin, like the crashing of a wave against a rocky shore, or the anxious thrumming of an unsteady heartbeat. It was a thing of metal and blood to be placed over her eyes, as was custom, to ensure her divine right to rule was preserved forevermore.
By Amanda Starks10 months ago in Fiction
An End of Gods & Dust: ACT III. Top Story - March 2025. Content Warning.
"Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
By Amanda Starks11 months ago in Chapters
Above the Anchor
I’ve been told that love is the strongest force in the universe, but I know it to be no more reliable than a house made of glass.
By Amanda Starks11 months ago in Fiction
An End of Gods & Dust: ACT II
"He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes." - Job 30:19 Kokuo watched the wind scream.
By Amanda Starks11 months ago in Chapters
DoN't ToUch mE. Top Story - February 2025.
There's this thing underneath her skin, waiting like a coiled spring - explosive like a firing pin Increasing in rage,
By Amanda Starks11 months ago in Poets
Always Winter
You speak in flashes, I listen in perpetuity. You shout for change, I whisper in stagnation. You call to ask me to the spring concert, I look at the calendar:
By Amanda Starks11 months ago in Poets
An End of Gods & Dust: ACT I
Together, they were the dust and the storm and the wind and the waves. The gods were a pair - particles in a vast sea of mire and endless potential. Here, they were more than just divine. They were a place, a state of being; the space that existed before time.
By Amanda Starks11 months ago in Chapters