books – Jordyn Saelor

scarlet

Never as simple as it seems, they found me following them by my panting breaths and noisy footsteps—maybe a good thing, since even with speed runes, I was dehydrating

For a fun, subtle tidbit in After Forever Falls Apart (the upcoming sequel to Graveyard of Lullabies), I added some Inupiaq (or Iñupiaq) numerals to some sections of the book. Not for the chapter numbers themselves, but…it’ll make sense once you see it. In the meantime, here’s some fun facts about Inupiaq numerals: It’s actuallyContinue reading “Inupiaq numbers”

meet

I built a house of burnt logs in the remnants of the town and every night I went to the lake to try to make up runes for chasing and hurting,

duel of my bleed

In the duel of the creed, may this dance be our seed, if it’s cruel take the deed make a stance, stop the bleed; hold the distance, grow an ash tree take a moonshot, steal the sunbeam, like a fool in the sea under blue silent scream needed rue just to breathe lungs all gluedContinue reading “duel of my bleed”

New Sequel Incoming

Juice

In a bottle, out the tap, I got this juicy goo in my veins. Whole stop. Gummy mummy waxing effigy, midnight the museum move like molasses statue sneak self-robbery or self-delivery. Goal stop. Hold the field’s revolution, take the cake claim the game, drink the juice jugo sluice open gates red punch river feed theContinue reading “Juice”

in the garden crave

The creature carved fish skins off by sticking a foot inside its wide open beak. Therefore it couldn’t see me that well so I dug a shallow pit in the dirt with my paddle feet and drew oversized runes to start a fire

I’m afraid

Yes, the lake had fish. No, I couldn’t catch any. So after a dozen failed attempts at nabbing slick blue fins I just waited out the fire that burned the whole

Back North

Hey Kid, it’s been a while since I’ve been back north. Have the daffodils sprung up yet in the flower beds? Have the magnolias bloomed? Are the puddles expanding outside the window, are your boots tall enough to stomp through them and stay dry up top? Hey Kid, I listened to a Raye song, andContinue reading “Back North”

an attempt was made

I started to feel a bit bad for the creature and this garden so many of them were trying to save, obviously in vain,