Amanda Starks

Joined September 2018

213 stories

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Epic fantasy writer, poet, and hopefully soon-to-be novelist who wants to create safe spaces to talk about mental health. Magic, swords, and monsters abound!

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The Great Lake
How deep do your currents lie and how many stories can they tell? What have they seen beneath your deep blue surface? So clear as to be ice;
By Amanda Starks6 months ago in Poets
Hello Birch Friends
Your ghostly faces like smiling friends reach out to me, softly glowing, like a foggy morning dappling the surfaces of my memory.
By Amanda Starks6 months ago in Poets
Lunar Ascent
My mind turns to the dark side of the moon, melding to the seams of the lunar loom - making madness, melting magnets - poles of personality dividing in twine;
By Amanda Starks7 months ago in Poets
Do you feel love?
Do you feel love when you're on your own, when you're a ghost, when you're searching for something you're missing? - Do you feel love
By Amanda Starks7 months ago in Poets
DEVOUR THE GODS; a snippet
The humans gave chase, and so the god ran. - He ran until the blur of the trees and the land melded together like the
By Amanda Starks7 months ago in Critique
The River of Reverie
Hold yourself close, and don’t let go; sink your fingers deep into flesh, into bone; tear away the veil of reality; the caged throne -
By Amanda Starks7 months ago in Poets
Sometimes I just want to scream at the world that I exist
Acknowledge me - I'm right here screaming into your ear, waving a neon sign, dancing in the rain like a clown on holiday
By Amanda Starks7 months ago in Poets
She Would Tear it Free. Top Story - July 2025.
DAY ONE He was sweet. Too sweet. She'd run into them before. The charmers, the lady killers, the masked fools. They’d always put their best foot forward, offering flowers with a loaded gun hidden behind their back.
By Amanda Starks7 months ago in Fiction
Central Texas is Flooding, Again
Let me take you back to 2018, a year that saw the second year of Trump’s Presidency; the Philadelphia Eagles winning their first Super Bowl in franchise history; the release of Marvel’s Black Panther; the end of the Kepler Space Telescope mission; and the “14 separate billion-dollar disaster events including: two tropical cyclones, eight severe storms, two winter storms, drought, and wildfires,” according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or NOAA.
By Amanda Starks8 months ago in Earth
Dreams into Reality
Trying to rip words from my heart, turning dreams into reality, forging molten iron into steel, but there is something missing -
By Amanda Starks8 months ago in Poets
Up From the Bottom
I've been under for quite a while now, drifting in the deep dark - the cold of the endless silence like a peaceful slumber.
By Amanda Starks8 months ago in Poets
ignem feram
Living inside one's own mind can be dangerous, especially when what occupies your mind are dangerous things. I've accepted long ago that I'm such a person - drawn to the darker corners of human nature and endlessly curious about how far one might dive into the abyss. I always thought I was above the millennia-old-saying that looking into such darkness would mean that darkness would peer into you.
By Amanda Starks8 months ago in Fiction