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Chel Maxfield writes stories about the quiet moments that break people open and the fragile magic that holds them together. A lifelong storyteller and artist, she explores themes of loss, transformation, and connection across both fantasy and contemporary worlds. When she’s not writing, she’s usually sketching, crocheting, or rewatching her favorite animated films. She lives in San Francisco with too many notebooks and not enough shelf space.

Category: Blood and Marrow

  • Chapter 2: Mother

    My mother and I have a complicated relationship. Granted my mother has a “complicated relationship” with the entire world. Untreated narcissism will do that to a person. The woman had driven away all my older siblings for one reason or another. My eldest brother had been kicked out a month before his eighteenth birthday when…

  • Chapter 1: Grillby

    It had been a little over three years since the slavery bill was enacted, and the only change was the general attitude toward monsters worsening. Human-on-monster violence had gone down, something bigots crowed about on radio talk shows. “Monster Slavery has been a huge help in integration of monsters into human society! It has been…

  • Prologue

    There are events that define generations. Once or twice a decade an event will change the course of history so much that everyone knows about it. Pearl Harbor. Hiroshima. The United States landing on the moon and winning the space race. JFK’s assassination. The murder of John Lennon. The fall of the Berlin Wall. Columbine.…