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One of the least favourite of my collections, sadly, even though I love the idea behind it. That might be because I haven't done as much work with this as I have with the others, so it's harder to understand, but the lack of work is, in part, caused by lack of interest. When I started the others I knew as little about them as I did with this. It wasn't until I started writing more about them that I learnt more, so I need to do the same thing with the Inquisition. Unfortunately as there is very little interest it does feel like I'm wasting my time when I'm working on it. My plan was to work on it in February, while I was working on Kim's Earth, and that didn't happen, as I know I have at least a couple of people who are at least vaguely interested in Kim's Earth but this one seems abandoned.

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Welcome!

It’s a pleasure to meet you. I’m K. A. Webb, a crowdfunded writer with a love of creating fantasy worlds, and this is the place to start if you’re new to my work. Here I’ll introduce you to all of my collections, my way of crowdfunding (because all crowdfunders work a little differently), and hopefully make things much easier for you than they would be if I hadn’t written this post.

Currently I write fiction for fourteen different collections. Some I write more for than others, because they’re favourites with certain readers, but it’s easy to get me to write more for your favourite collections. I have regular prompt sessions, as well as a prompt page for prompts outside of sessions; you can sponsor a collection so I’ll post more fiction;  you can rent a setting, adopt a character, or create your own ebook, and have fiction emailed to you. The majority of them are fantasy, because I enjoy world building, but my main focus is always the characters I’m writing. That’s a part of the reason I enjoy writing AUs and crossovers.

Most of my collections have been a work in progress for nearly a decade now. There was a time, before I started crowdfunding, when I thought my work wasn’t good enough. It’s possible I still would now if I didn’t have readers who tell me that they enjoy what they’re reading, but I started crowdfunding without knowing if I would succeed or fail, and that was terrifying. I have no idea now how I convinced myself – I’m just thankful I did. People do read my work, although I have no idea how many, and I’m glad I took the plunge.

The oldest collection I write fiction for is the Donor House collection. I started writing the first story for this collection when I was still at school, in a way that could almost be seen as writing serial fiction, because I used to write a bit each night and then my friends used to read it the next day. That was when I realised how much I enjoyed having an audience. Now my focus is the Donor House, which is set locally to me, although I do also write for the world outside the house too. In time I want to begin writing for the two other houses that are in the UK and I would love to have a couple of houses in other countries. At the moment I’m writing fiction from all over the timeline, including from before the house was created, and my aim for this collection in the next year is to introduce all the main characters in the first Donor House that would be there in 2008.

As with all of my collections the Donor House has changed a lot since I first started writing for it. When I first started writing the stories I had this image of a house that had been in use for centuries, but it turned out that I started writing right at the beginning of the timeline. I would love to write about the House in the future, and the vampires I’ve slowly been introducing, because I started this collection to explore the different ways the vampires deal with being what they are. The House itself was started as somewhere vampires who were having trouble being vampires could hopefully find a home, as well as somewhere vampires could begin integrating with humans. Writing about the characters in the House is something I really enjoy and as it’s also a favourite with others I guess I’m not the only one who enjoys this collection.

If you’re new to this collection I suggest you start here.

My next oldest collection, and the one that has changed dramatically since it was first thought up, is the Thear collection. Originally it started as a story about a number of girls who were sent to the planet Thear because there weren’t enough females there for all the males. There were arranged marriages and it was all very different to the collection it’s become, although I am also posting some AUs that show where I began with Thear. Now it’s about the three races who live on Thear – the Dorma, the Uisdro and the Tein-Igni. One thing I plan on doing relatively soon is going back to the beginning of the story and finding out why these three races ended up living together on the same island. I know at one point they got on well, working together to make a home for themselves, but things changed and that’s something else I want to explore.

Thear is easily my most religious world. Everyone here believes in at least one of the deities of Thear, although there are problems here caused by their religion, which is one of the things I’m exploring. As Thearan deities were also once worshipped on Earth this collection has a very close link with the Deities’ World collection.

Strangely the Deities’ World collection is one of my newer collections. I started working on it because Callidora, the daughter of Hades and Persephone, wanted me to start writing about her. The collection has grown as more deities have started pushing me to tell their stories, including Lucifer. I plan on writing about all of the Thearean deities, continuing to write about Callie, exploring the world a little more, and it seems likely I’ll end up writing about Archimedes (Callie’s older brother).

It’s also possible that the Deities’ World collection may start connecting with the Pagan collection. Paganism has always been something I wanted to write about, because I’m a pagan (although I’ll admit that I’m not a very good one), so I’ve been working on fiction for this collection for a long time. Anna, one of the main characters, has changed a lot during that time, and she’s now a girl with amnesia trying to work out where she fits in now that she can’t remember her family or old friends. She is one of the characters I want to throw into as many situations as possible to see how she reacts.

New to these collections? Start here with Thear; here with the Deities’ World; and here with the Pagan collection.

One of the things I love doing is writing characters with magic and seeing how it affects them. Three collections I’m writing fiction for have different magical systems: the Aurora’s World collection; the Heliopath’s World collection; and the Brotherhood collection. (I’m planning on changing the names of Aurora’s World and Heliopath’s World, because they were working names created using characters I was focusing on in the collections.)

The Brotherhood Collection is another one I’ve been working on for almost a decade. Originally it started out as a werewolf story, then it become about two different groups with magic fighting each other, and now I’m using a mix of both ideas, along with the Millennium Bug. The basic storyline is that children born after the year 2000 can have magical abilities and the Brotherhood want to collect them. Shapeshifting is one of the first abilities to maifest, which often has an adverse affect on the children with that power. Later on there are two distinct groups – the Brotherhood and Unity – who aim to teach the children how to use their abilities, but go about it in entirely different ways.

The Aurora’s World collection is relatively new. I started it because I wanted to write about magic being illegal and it ended up becoming the home of one of my most involved magical systems, where the magic a character has is related to when they were born. Every power they have, how it manifests, and when are all affected by the exact moment of birth. I’ve been working on it slowly, because making it’s not a simple way of doing things, but it is fun. Recently I’ve started exploring the other kingdoms and this has led to the introduction of the magic thieves. They steal power from those who don’t know how to use it, some collect magical powers, and their hideout was created using magic. Learning about them has been really interesting, so they’re definitely something I plan on exploring further.

The Heliopath’s World collection is also relatively new, but has gone through a lot of changes during that time. Originally it was a dream world, where characters lived two separate lives on in two places and the story I wrote was about what happens when those two lives collide. Now it’s become about addictive magic, which is something I’m still working on, but every spell a character uses leaves them with some form of withdrawal symptom and the harshness of that symptom depends on the strength of the magic. The other thing I’m exploring is about what happens when a group of magicians all live in one town and forget about what is happening in the world around them.

New to these collections? Start here with Aurora’s World; here with Heliopath’s World; and here with The Brotherhood.

A group of collections that are connected are the Fae World collection, the ‘Astral’ World collection, and the World Walkers collection. I’m still trying to work out if I should integrate the ‘Astral’ World stories into the Fae World collection, because I’m pretty certain that both the worlds were created when the fae were experimenting.

The Fae World collection is actually set in a number of different worlds, including Earth, due to the destruction of the fae’s home world. An overuse of the world’s magic led to the problem, because the fae had no way of returning the magic they used to the world’s core and didn’t want to stop using magic. Stories follow what happened to the griffins, a natural race whose home was the world the fae destroyed; the Dragons, a race created by the fae; the Shifters, who split between going with the Dragons and the fae; the merpeople, who went with the fae; and the twinned worlds, where Lena lives.

The ‘Astral’ World collection is about two different groups of people: the magicians, who have magic and live on Kalinia; and the thieves, who don’t have magic, want it, and spend the majority of their time trying to get it. but can only travel to Kalinia for short periods of time. I’m not certain I started with the right characters or in the right place in the timeline, but I do plan on exploring the creation of the thieves, how the magicians ended up on Kalinia, and exactly what the magic can do.

The World Walkers collection is about another group of the fae, the Thirteen Families, who buried their heads in the sand before realising they had no choice but to flee their home world. In order to stop the same thing from happening to their new world, Athare, they chose to create a web of worlds in the hope they can collect magic using that web. Currently I’m exploring a number of worlds, getting to know some of the races the fae created, and learning about all the different magics the races were given. No one really knows what’s going to happen in the future, especially not the fae, and the name of this collection comes from one of the most unexpected things to happen – the evolution of the World Walkers. The fae aimed to be in control of everything, but magic often makes decisions for them.

New to these collections? Start here with the World Walkers collection; here with the ‘Astral’ World collection; travel to the twinned worlds; meet the griffins; meet the merpeople; meet the Dragons; or meet the fae.

The Afterlife collection is one of my newer collections and I was originally planning on focusing on Caitlyn’s studies as she learnt to be a spirit guide. Instead Richard, who was originally a minor character, ended up becoming Death and taking over. I started working on this not long after someone close to me died, because it does help to write about the afterlife, and I’m glad I did. Somehow it’s become another reader favourite, so I often get prompts for this collection, and I plan on working on a lot more bonus material, as I’m writing about my view of the afterlife.

If you’re new to this collection start here.

The Magi collection is an older one and another that went through a number of changes. Thomar is the character who’s changed the most, because in his first incarnation he was not a nice person, but slowly he seems to have become one of my favourite characters and one I want to write about more. With this collection I seem to be beginning in the middle of the storyline once again, between when the Magi were kept as slaves by the Carne (Thomar is one of the Carne) and when they slowly begin to rebuild their relationship. The Magi are healers and known around the world for their abilities, but due to their past they refuse to help the Carne, until one Magi girl puts aside her feelings and does what she thinks should be done.

I plan on exploring the history of this world a lot more than I have done, especially the history of the Magi, as well as the other races and the magics of the world. This is one that doesn’t see to have become a favourite, although I love it, so it’s been on the backburner a little while I work on other things.

Start here with this collection.

My final two collections are both set on Earth, but they are alternate universe Earths. One is Kim’s Earth, where a population surge changed the world, and the other is a world where there is still an Inquisition.

Kim’s Earth is one that I want to work on more than I have. The idea is one I’ve had for a while – a man-made apocolypse, where the majority of people remaining are under sixteen. My apocolypse was an injection, created to stop Earth’s population from increasing for five years, that ended up killing everyone that had it. Of course there are conspiracy theories about whether the drug was tested well enough before the injection and some people take them seriously, including Kim’s father. She is one of the few people over the age of sixteen alive and ends up taking on the job of looking after a group of children, because they all look up to her. I plan on exploring this world a lot more, as there are other groups that I want to write about and I want to write about the future that they all have.

The Inquisition collection has a very basic premise – the Inquisition never ended. What would life be like if there was still an Inquisition, although this Inquisition is a little different. As I haven’t worked on this collection as much I’m not certain on some of the details, but it’s one I want to make more time for this year.

Start here with Kim’s Earth and here with the Inquisition.

I also write AUs and crossovers, because I love exploring different decisions my characters could have made, how they might have lived if they’d been born on a different world, what their story might have been if they were a different gender. If you’re interested in seeing more of any of these remember the prompts page, you can use the write more button that I have on the bottom of all my posts (every click equals 500 words), or you can commission me to write the story you’re craving.

If a story has already been written it’s going to be up for sponsorship. Every donation of £3 or more will gain the donor a perk and if you have no idea what you want to sponsor then you can ask for your donation to go into the general fund. If you’re low on money but would love to purchase some extra words then collect credits – every comment you make could get you one step closer to what you want.

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Written for livejournal user skjam’s leap year prompt.

Laura wrapped an arm around herself. She didn’t want to do it, but she had to. Keeping herself, and her baby, safe was more important than her feelings. Maybe he would know why she had come to him. Anything was possible. He had been the one to arrest her parents and she knew it wouldn’t be long before someone came to question her. Part of her was glad that she had met him before the arrest, so she had time to get to know him. Even though she didn’t like him he knew how he felt about her, which was why he’d told her about the arrests before they happened, and she felt a tiny bit guilty because she was just using him.

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“I hope it never happens to me too,” Louisa said, glancing down at the newspaper. “When I think of that poor girl, and what’s going to happen to her whether she’s found guilty or not guilty, I feel even more grateful that I’m here, that I got lucky.” She looked at Skyler. “Death for a guilty verdict or living a half life if she’s found not guilty. She’ll never be able to study law again.”

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Written for livejournal user natalief’s prompt about explosions and Fireworks Night. It went in a very different direction to the one I was expecting it to.

Terry smiled at Martin. “It’s a fantastic idea, Martin, and I think we should do it. Our names will go down in the history books no matter what happens.”

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“Why do you want to go outside so much?” Louisa asked.

“The day that I go outside is the day that I know I’m free. We’re all prisoners down here, even though it’s to keep us safe from being a different kind of prisoner.” Skyler sighed. “If I wasn’t here then I’d be in one of those Inquisition run boarding schools being taught how to be like everyone else and I can’t help wondering if it would be better there.”

“I’m glad that I’m here because I have the freedom to be myself.” Skyler looked at her and found that she was staring down at the newspaper. “Natalie will never know freedom again and you don’t seem to appreciate that we at least have some freedom. Maybe being stuck in an underground safehouse isn’t free enough but it’s better than being dead or forced into being someone else.”

He glanced at the newspaper before looking back at Louisa. “Natalie knew what would happen if her family was ever arrested. I did, from the time I was old enough to know what my parents were, but I never had a change to walk away. At her age she could have walked away if she wanted to and she chose not to. If I’d had the choice then I might not have done the same thing.”

“Do you really expect me to believe that you would have just stopped?”

“It’s possible. I just don’t know what would have happened if Natalie and I were in each other’s shoes.” An image if Natalie floated in Skyler’s mind, as she was when they’d last seen each other. “We were very different people and I think she would have dealt with living in a safe house much better than I have.”

“You don’t know that for sure, Skyler. I think that when you’ve spent time away from someone it’s easy to see all their good points but none of the bad. Can you think of anything you didn’t like about Natalie?”

Skyler smiled. “I don’t know that there was anything I didn’t like. We were only friends for about six months and I think that during that time you’re always on your best behaviour. She could be a bit of a know-it-all but I didn’t dislike that about her. It’s amazing what I learnt during our short friendship.”

“Then you really don’t know that she would have coped better with living in a safe house than you. Six months isn’t enough time to get to know someone that well.”

“Maybe you’re right.” Skyler sighed. “She just seemed so much more mature than I was and I think she would have appreciated having a chance at life much more than I have.” He looked at Louisa. “I look at the safe houses and all I see is the chances that I never had.”

Louisa reached out and touched his hand. “I know I was lucky, Skyler, and that I had chances that other people didn’t, so it might be easier for me to appreciate being alive that it is for you. When I’ve been here as long as you have I can imagine being bitter about what I missed out on.”

“I hope that never happens to you, Louisa, because I need someone who can still see the positives of living this life and I know that there are other people who also need it.”

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Originally posted at dreamwidth.org (and crossposted to livejournal.com) as kajones_writing.

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“Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you were lucky enough to get a new life now?” Louisa asked wistfully.

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Written for Surprise Story Week: 13.

The morning newspaper was in the middle of the table, opened to what looked like page three, and everyone who was awake was gathered around it. Sighing, Skyler went to join them, even though he knew what had happened. It was the same thing that had happened every time they gathered around a newspaper. There had been another arrest of someone, or several someones if it was a family, practicing witchcraft, it probably involved someone at least one of them knew, and he wasn’t sure he really wanted to know who it was. He hated the thought of recognising a name because he knew exactly what they were going through.

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To begin with it was a normal evening. Natalie was upstairs working on her essay for law while the rest of her family were downstairs watching something on TV. They’d asked if she wanted to join them but getting her work done was more important that anything that was on. Law was one of her favourite subjects so she wanted to do well and judicial precedent was one of the parts she found easiest. Biting the end of her pen, even though she knew it was a really bad habit, she looked down at the notes she’d written in class. As usual they were almost impossible to read because her fast handwriting was not good at all. Unfortunately, her Law tutor spoke really quickly so she had little choice in how fast she wrote.

She’d just managed to translate a sentence when there was a loud knocking on the door. With her pen still in her mouth she went to look out of her bedroom window to see who was out there. Normally it would have taken her a few seconds to get used to the change of light but this time she had no problem seeing thanks to the flashing blue lights. There were three police cars, three unmarked police cars, and a police van. It wouldn’t be long before more police cars arrived. Some of the officers would ask the whole street questions about their family while others would arrest their closest neighbours.

Breathing deeply she walked away from the window. In an attempt to keep busy she packed up her notes and put them on the desk. Her essay didn’t matter any more. No one in her family would be prosecuted, as there was nothing in the house that could be used as evidence, but being taken in by the anti-witchcraft unit was enough to end her Law studies. Once you’d been questioned by them there was no going back to life as it was before. They would always be watching and she would no longer be permitted to study Law.

There was nothing else she could do so she sat on the bed to wait. She didn’t know what to expect because no one could talk about what happened when they were arrested by the a-w unit. Those who were found guilty were executed, unless they were under sixteen and then they’d be sent to a boarding school; those who were found innocent had to be given a new identity so that no vigilant witch hunter could go after them and once you were given a new identity you couldn’t ever speak about the old one.

A knock on her bedroom door made her jump. Still biting hard on her pen she looked over at it, wondering whether she needed to invite the police officer into her room or not. It turned out she didn’t because the door opened and he stepped into the room, holding a pair of handcuffs. Sighing she put her pen on the bed and stood up so he could put the cuffs on her. The first thing she noticed was how cold they were.

“Natalie O’Connor I’m arresting you on suspicion of performing illegal acts of witchcraft. You do not have to say anything but it may harm your defence if you do not mention, when questioned, something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence. Do you understand?”

She nodded, keeping her eyes on the floor so she didn’t have to look at him. No matter what she saw in his eyes she knew that it would make her start crying and that was the last thing she wanted to do. Crying was not going to help her situation at all or make her feel better. After one last glance around her room, which would never be hers again, she let him take her where she needed to go.

When they got outside she realised that she was the last one to leave. There was only one police van left, the police van that would take her to the a-w prison. He opened the cage that she would be sitting in and then helped her into it. It wasn’t until she was inside the van that she realised someone was already in it. The insignia on his shirt filled her with fear. Pushing it to the back of her mind she sat down opposite him. When the cage clanged shut she shuddered, knowing that she would be spending the entire journey to the a-w prison in the company of an Inquisitor.

It wasn’t until the van started moving that he said, “I’m Zach and I’ve been designated as your Inquisition liaison. Until your trial you will be in solitary confinement to stop you from conferring with your family or any other person waiting to go on trial. I will be the only person to visit your room during this time so I suggest you get used to me being around. Anything you say to me will be confidential.”

She stayed silent. Her parents had told her not to talk to an Inquisitor if they ever got arrested and she wanted to make them proud of her. There was nothing to look at in the van, except for him, so she stared at the handcuffs, carefully moving her hands because they were really uncomfortable.

“I can take those off for you if you want.”

Glancing at him she shook her head. She did want them off but she didn’t want him to take them off, because she had this horrible feeling that he would want something in return for anything he did for her. Breathing deeply she focused on her family. The best way to keep them safe was to not let the Inquisitor get to her at all, no matter how difficult it was.

“Natalie, you don’t have to protect them. Your two younger sisters will be safe when your parents are found guilty and if you help me I will do my best to keep you safe too.”

She had to believe that her parents wouldn’t be found guilty. If she stopped believing that at any time then it might give the Inquisitor a way in. The Inquisitor didn’t look much older than she was, which she knew was done for a reason. They wanted her to find him approachable and confide in him so they would have evidence against her parents. If a family member gave evidence it was always better for the Inquisition. No one really knew why they’d do it because those who gave evidence were given a new identity.

“You’re eighteen, right?” When she didn’t answer he checked a file that was sitting next to him. “Eighteen and in college, studying Law, Psychology and Physics. Interesting. Don’t throw your life away because your parents are who they are. You don’t have to be like them.” Zach looked at her. “If you agree to help me, even if you don’t want to give evidence during the trial, then I’ll help you get reconditioned.”

Natalie raised her eyebrows, even though she didn’t want to react to what he was saying. She was happy with her life so the last thing she wanted was to be reconditioned. It didn’t sound like something that could be done to a human being unless they planned on wiping her memory and starting again.

“I know reconditioning doesn’t sound very nice but really it’s just learning how to be a useful member of society. It’s a bit like what your sisters will go through when they start at boarding school. Your lessons will just be more intense because you’re older.” He reached out and touched her hand. “If you successfully go through reconditioning then you’ll be able to go back to your Law class.”

It was difficult for her to stay still because of how much she wanted to pull away from him. His touch made her skin crawl. Breathing deeply she stared down at the floor of the van, hating the way he was staring at her intently as though she was some sort of interesting insect.

“You’re going to have to get used to me being around Natalie. For the next year I will be your only companion.” He moved closer to her. “Talk to me.”

Keeping her eyes locked on the floor of the van she thought about her sisters. She wished she could be there for them because she knew they’d be scared and lonely. If there was one thing she regretted it was her younger sisters going to a boarding school because the Inquisition thought that witchcraft was wrong.

Originally posted at dreamwidth.org as kajones_writing.

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