Amanda Starks

Joined September 2018

210 stories

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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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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 Starks5 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 Starks6 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 Starks6 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 Starks6 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 Starks6 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 Starks6 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 Starks6 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 Starks6 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 Starks6 months ago in Fiction
Make them Worship
Let me scare you into belief - faith based on fear of the unknown, loyalty founded in lies. Let us lift our hands to an empty sky,
By Amanda Starks7 months ago in Poets
An End of Gods & Dust: ACT V
“Courage is the strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.” - Atul Gawande
By Amanda Starks7 months ago in Chapters
An End of Gods & Dust: ACT IV. Top Story - June 2025.
“Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.” - Herman Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
By Amanda Starks7 months ago in Chapters