Amanda Starks

Joined September 2018

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Fantasy writer, poet, and hopefully soon-to-be novelist who wants to create safe spaces to talk about mental health. Subscribe to my free newsletter at www.amandastarks.com for updates!

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The Darkness it Could Not Bear
Let me tell you a tale of ten years past of a lantern held high; defiant against an abyss that threatened to douse a radiant dream,
By Amanda Starks3 months ago in Poets
I Summon Thee, Death. Content Warning.
A girl stands on the edge of a cliff, contemplating the long drop down to the valley floor. Beneath her, giant crumbling boulders rest with cloaks of old, stale snow upon their backs. To the girl, they look like a group of people huddling for warmth in the middle of a snowstorm. Why would they do that? The girl wonders. Why would they sit there and wait to die?
By Amanda StarksExclusive • 3 months ago
Winter Night, Give Way to Spring. Honorable Mention in The Sonnet of Shadows Challenge.
Let me compare thee to a winter's night, Chilling cold and shattered from your senses, Beautiful and encompassing without delight,
By Amanda Starks3 months ago in Poets
Blood of the Wolf: The Warning. Top Story - September 2025.
My name is Uthgerd - though you may call me coward - for this day I ran from a battlefield drowned in flames. The jarls said it was just one shieldmaiden
By Amanda Starks4 months ago in Poets
Blood of the Wolf: The Glowing Trail
Deep in the dark where no light dare dwell a tower stands nearly crumbled to sand. A fire bravely burns bright against the night
By Amanda Starks4 months ago in Poets
Waiting to Hold Something New. Content Warning.
I had to let it go - this rage - this insistent barricade of fear. It had grown like a firestorm; incomprehensible tension
By Amanda Starks4 months ago in Poets
Approaching the Fall
I watch as you drift languidly at one with the breeze, content with sleep.
By Amanda Starks4 months ago in Poets
An End of Gods & Dust: ACT VI. Content Warning.
“You must guard the webs you weave that make dreams into flesh. Many beings will cherish those webs because they are spun out of magic that lives in the heart.” - Dreams Made Flesh by Anne Bishop
By Amanda Starks4 months ago in Chapters
Blood of the Wolf: The First Rumor. Top Story - September 2025.
Gather round, viking brethren; lay down your axes, your hammers and lend me your ear, for I have heard from the moon-kin
By Amanda Starks4 months ago in Poets
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 Starks4 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 Starks4 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 Starks5 months ago in Poets