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Elayna Mae Darcy is a chaotic good, non-binary bard from Philadelphia. (Go birds.) Their previous publications include a sci-fi short story in Issue 02 of Wizards in Space Literary Magazine, and poems featured in just femme & dandy, tiny wren lit, and Impostor Lit, among others.They are the author of the UNVEIL ME poetry duology, which includes UNRAVELING LIGHT (2018) and DARKNESS UNDONE (2020), and have served as an MC to Philly's Slutty Poems Night and read at events for the Moonstone Arts Center.

Elayna is also the author of the self-published, queer, YA fantasy verse-novel STILL THE STARS (2022), which can be found on the shelves of libraries in countries they’ve never been to. In their time as a Social Media Specialist for MuggleNet.com ...more

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It is February 2004 and you are 13 years old. It’s around mid-morning, your seventh grade classmates are chatting amongst themselves, but you will sit in the back of the class, and an idea will tap you on the shoulder.

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A Larger Reality

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“Mom and Dad called me Moonlight, the brightest thing in their sky on their darkest nights. It always sounded so pretty, but the real me is more rough around the edges.”
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