The Z-Axis

Author Interview: Michael La Ronn

By: Amira K. February 19, 2014February 19, 2014

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Please welcome to The Z-Axis Michael La Ronn, an innovative indie author with a different approach to writing. I sincerely hope you’ll all read his interview, as Michael’s unique perspectives on writing and narration are fascinating and something that we can all learn from. Michael is a novelist, poet, and publisher who believes that writing…

Porous, Chapter Seven: You Are The Fisherman

By: Amira K. February 17, 2014February 17, 2014

Porousdark, fantasy, fiction, free, paranormal, psychology, serial, writing, young adult9 Comments

“No,” I say. “I don’t want to.” “Because you’re afraid,” he responds. “It’s okay. I am too. I don’t like it there any more than you do.” “They don’t hurt you like they do me.” “But why do they hurt you, Noomi?” I pause and think about that for a moment. “In a dream they…

Five Things I Learned About Art From Seeing Shearwater Live

By: Amira K. February 13, 2014February 13, 2014

Musingsart, artist, fiction, Jonathan Meiburg, literature, love, music, passion, Shearwater, writing3 Comments

This past weekend in San Francisco, I went to see my favorite band, Shearwater, perform live at Bottom Of The Hill. I was worried I’d be disappointed; that somehow their live performance wouldn’t live up to the music I’d grown to love on their albums. I’ve been disappointed by bands I’d been in love with…

Porous, Chapter Six: Aurora Borealis

By: Amira K. February 10, 2014February 10, 2014

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First I see Silas. But now it’s not just his eyes that are many-colored. His whole body is iridescent. The gleaming, swirling colors have spread from his irises to his skin, drenching him in a wet, metallic sheen of the spectrum. He looks somehow liquid, as if I could dip my fingers into him and…

Porous, Chapter Five: Haunted

By: Amira K. February 3, 2014February 2, 2014

Compositions, Porousdark fiction, fantasy, fiction, literature, Porous, psychology, reading, writing, young adult6 Comments

First of all, allow me to say that it’s somewhat unbelievable how far this story has come from its humble beginnings as a forgotten passage in a lost folder on my hard drive. Every chapter is a revelation for me as well as for you, and every suggestion I get from my readers is incredibly…

Porous, Chapter Four: Oil-Slick Colors

By: Amira K. January 27, 2014January 26, 2014

Compositions, Porousdark psychological, fantasy, fiction, magic, paranormal, Porous, psychology, thriller, young adult7 Comments

“How do you like your new wilderness group?” “I really like them. Well, not all of them. But Paul is great – he’s new, you might not have met him yet. He’s really funny. And I like Clara, too, although she’s a little bit stiff.” “Stiff?” “She’s hard to talk to. She can be very…

Ambition & Abandonment

By: Amira K. January 25, 2014January 25, 2014

Musings, Porous, The Seeds Trilogy, Wineambition, blogging, Porous, The Reaping, The Seeds Trilogy, The Sowing, travel, wine, writing7 Comments

2014 really started out with a bang. My debut novel, The Sowing, has been doing great on Amazon and other online retailers. I finished writing the first draft of the second book in the trilogy, The Reaping, in late December. I’m working on a novella set in the same world, from a different character’s perspective, TBR in…

Porous, Chapter Three: The Blackness In Between The Stars

By: Amira K. January 20, 2014January 18, 2014

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This is the third chapter of my reader-driven blog serial, Porous. If you need to catch up, go back to Chapter One: Immolation or Chapter Two: Sky-Honey. The Blackness In Between The Stars “Kawai, you will have to learn to sleep without the light on sometime.” “Another night, kasaan. I want the lights on tonight.” My mother…

Author Interview: Drew Chial

By: Amira K. January 15, 2014January 11, 2014

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Please welcome Drew Chial to the Z-Axis. I’ve admired Drew’s work for a long time, notably for his incredibly in-depth and passionate blog posts exhorting writers to originality and creativity. Drew is an author, graphic artist, aspiring voice actor, and a musician living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He writes short stories that he bills as Twilight Zone fan…

Working Title: Porous, Chapter 2

By: Amira K. January 13, 2014January 11, 2014

Compositions, Porousdarkness, fantasy, fiction, paranormal, Porous, psychology, shadows, snow, wilderness8 Comments

This week’s installment of the reader-driven blog serial, Porous. If you haven’t read the first chapter, please click here. Sky-Honey Flakes of snow curl around me like yesterday’s flames. They’re as puffy as clouds, as wet as Kuri’s tongue lapping at my cheeks. They drip from the sky in great empty breaths. I brush them out…