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Welcome, however you got here. My chosen name here is Anadrel (after one of the characters in my novels) and the main focus of this page is fantasy: the fantasy writing I do, the worlds I've created, and some of their various add-ons- such as the languages that the greetings above come from. The website also touch on a few personal things that I'm interested in, such as poetry and atheism. If you came here thinking it was somewhere else, please go elsewhere now.

Still here?

Well, good. I do like visitors. And I do have a lot to read here.

What exactly is that? Well, you could take a look at the page hosting links to various prologues and first chapters of my novels, or my page of short stories, or the sprawling list of some of my poems, or the page holding my English papers that have delusions of grandeur. If you're more interested in the fantasy worlds as worlds, go here. None of these are published, but they are mine, copyright Anadrel; Thank You For Not Stealing. If for some weird reason you've got itchy fingers, please remember that.

I suspect a few warnings may be in order:

• My novels are fantasy, and most of them don't concern human characters. If you want to know more about the main race that plays a role in them, go here.

• None of these books have been published, and they're very uneven in quality. I've been writing them since I was fourteen, and more than nine years have passed since then, so while I hope they've improved, they are hardly the products of a mind that has spent four decades or more gaining experience.

• Most of my poems rhyme. Yes, there are people who can't stand that. I don't like most free verse. If free verse is crown, chaplet, and garland to you, we'll just have to agree to disagree.

• My short stories and poems may deal with disturbing subject matter, or at least subject matter disturbing to some people (there are warnings beside them in that case).

• While we're on the subject--deep breath now--none of the characters in my poems or stories are me. They are masks, people I've met in my head and subconscious.

• I'm an atheist. This sometimes means that I distress religious people, wittingly or not. You don't have to read the parts of the site that bother you if you don't like that.

• Friendly warning here: my focus as an English major is the nineteenth century, and sometimes it can get pretty damn technical. I don't spend a lot of time discussing modern works, because I'm not really interested in them.

Still with me? If you want to see what's changed since you were last here, go visit the Updates section. If you're really dying to find out something about me, go here.. Otherwise, you can go back up to one of the more general links, or start out with a poem that might give you a brief taste of what I write.

See you around. Farewell. Adios. Lushal. Nuinda.