NOTES FROM THE DARK

The Ember Journal

On monsters, motherhood, and the stories we carry into the dark.

Inside the book

She gave birth to a dragon. What happens after the first breath?

Discover Elara and Ember in A Monster’s Mother, an illustrated dark fantasy novel about raising a dragon child.

Motherhood & monsters

A reading of the uneasy boundary between protection, possession and the monstrous mother.

Reading the dark

Two useful lenses for reading a story: the danger beyond the door and the past that refuses to leave.

Monsters & meaning

What changes when a frightening creature becomes the one whose survival matters to us?