Why hello there, I'm Irene Fray~! (She/Her)
I consider myself something of a fantasy storyteller smitten with the idea of web serials that go on far longer than a single book. For the moment, I'm keeping things as Safe For Work as I can. I'll try to warn you before tempting you into an appetizing story that I've written or read that is decidedly less so.
My goal with this site is to craft a fitting home for my writing. While you will find links that point you elsewhere, consider this space to be my more personal workshop. I have something of an aspiration to provide everything I write to forever be free in some form, which means creating a number of charming little homes for the stories I wish to share.
A few words of caution: I would like to gently inform you that my writing is the sort that benefits greatly from content warnings. While some might see them as spoilers, I try to keep them readily available in the back of a book or spoilered before a digital chapter. Regardless of how different readers might feel, they're there for a reason. A lot of my writing places characters you're meant to identify with and want to see happy placed very firmly under the crushing weight of oppression in some form or another.
If you're not sure you're up for something, I implore you to step away. My serialized writing will always be here when you feel up for engaging with them. My standing promise is that no matter how bleak things get, there will always be a happy ending for anyone entangled in a romantic relationship.
Onto the fun stuff! Expect my writing to be character focused. If I've set things up properly, Trans and Lesbian are two of the core tags you'll find in all my work. You'll also get found families, polyamorous relationships, and supportive communities necessary to do more than just survive. I want to spin tales where characters fight to live as their truest and honest selves. Just... sometimes getting there will be messy and I want to delight in the mess made by earnest attempts at expressing one's self. (Or not knowing how and trying anyway. Sometimes not being okay is the only thing you can be.)
My most recent short story, which has a pending continuation: To Burn Bright in Her Cold Embrace is a 6,000 word halloween project about a trans girl struggling to do right by herself and those she cares about, blind to her vampire mistress whose reflection does not show up in the mirror while she beats herself up. To Burn Bright in her Cold Embrace is a sweet little dynamic of struggling to accept ourselves and resist denying ourselves what we want that cuts to the heart of a lot of what I write.
Expect the continuation to tackle the weight of old memories, burned bridges, and accepting ourselves falling short of what we hoped to become and settling for being a work in progress as primary themes. This one is, unfortunately, also a work in progress.
If you're particularly hungry to read what I have to offer: Depths of Promises Sworn is 196,000 words of a nonbinary transfem vampire prince struggling to do right by their blood dolls while the weight of an arranged marriage to two elven seer sisters and the addition of vassals, each with their own agendas, all come together in an unholy alliance where everyone involved must grapple with the ends and means of their lives already being decided by an old and wretched trio of a evil imperialist lesbians.
It's got emotional stone magic that demands you reckon with the past memories of those contained within implements that are used to drive the plot in fun and evocative ways. And so many lesbians. Depths has: An angsty succubus bodyguard with a past mirroring her prince. A tricksy vulpine advisor. Two endearing blood dolls who are way too comfortable with the violence of vampires. Oh, and two cute moon elf women on the cover designed by a transmac I commissioned art from. (It was really fun just embracing his designs and characterizing them to match.) Along with another transfem elven bodyguard partner struggling to find a space within the entire polycule.
That said, I often find myself craving a platform in which I can point readers and soon to be readers in the direction of other stories. For when what I write is not enough, a dragon's hoard can be counted on to contain treasures worth sharing~! For this, and any other projects I decide to add to my hoard, refer to my links page.