The Eldar Sister

by Ian Welke

Maybe Stessa Asho hasn’t seen it all, but he has seen a lot if it. An old orc now, he’s most often found atop a bar stool rather than behind a camera snapping pictures or hopping the trolleys to tail suspects through the mean streets of the City of Tides. When the case that broke him crops up again, Stessa must put a stop to an ancient cult active in the present while all the while confronting the devastation of his past.

95 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 6, 2023

About the author

Ian Welke writes science fiction, fantasy, and horror. His short stories have appeared in KZine, spacewesterns.com, Arcane II, Zombie Jesus and Other True Stories, and the American Nightmare anthology among others. His first novel, The Whisperer in Dissonance, was published by Omnium Gatherum in 2014. End Times at Ridgemont High is his second novel and has been nominated for a Bram Stoker Award.

Before writing full time, Ian worked in the computer games industry. He was lucky enough to work at Blizzard Entertainment and at Runic Games. These days, when he’s not at his desk writing, Ian enjoys a variety of games. His favorites tend to be elaborate board games with many pieces and rules to confuse, though he’s happiest going mad with his characters in the Call of Cthulhu RPG.

Ian lived in Seattle for six years, enjoying the rain, but has returned home to Long Beach, California, where he schemes to find shelving to house all of the books he reads.