Elijah Menchaca - Writer

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The Memory of the Dead, Part 4 — Elijah Menchaca This was no longer just Bad News. This was about to be a fight.

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The Memory of the Dead, Part 3 — Elijah Menchaca The Memory of the Dead, Part 3 Xigbar left Emerald and Soris twitching and writhing in an alleyway, crippled snake bites courtesy of his armband. The relic was the one thing he'd been able to get back from his old gear, by virtue of it always turning into a snake and coming to find him whenever he

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The Memory of the Dead, Part 2 — Elijah Menchaca The Memory of the Dead, Part 2 Xigbar was hungry, lonely, and out of money. He considered that last one the biggest problem, since solving that one would also neatly solve the first two. Of course, that raised the challenge of actually finding a way to make some money. Pinching scales from people

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The Memory of the Dead, Part 1 — Elijah Menchaca The Memory of the Dead, Part 1 Many cultures on Asher had an autumn holiday connected in some way to the departed. But where Corsar had the Hallowing, the day Saint Vax gathered up all the lost souls in the land and shepherded them to the afterlife, Xykesh had Threshart. According to local traditi

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The Kobolds in the Sewers, Part 4 — Elijah Menchaca The kobolds were a lot more hospitable after the tall ones had saved the lives of not just their hero, but all five of the pups that the dire maggot had attacked.

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The Kobolds in the Sewers, Part 1 — Elijah Menchaca “Okay, next one,” Valerie prompted. “The witches of the Night Coven have altered physiology which makes them immune to . . .”

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The Wolf in the Arena, Part 4 — Elijah Menchaca Arden's face became impossibly still, betraying absolutely no emotion. “What happened to her?”

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The Wolf in the Arena, Part 3 — Elijah Menchaca When Arden stated his intentions to his students, List found herself wondering, not for the first time, if the man lived in the same world as the rest of them.

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The Wolf in the Arena, Part 2 — Elijah Menchaca "Look, I get he's your teacher, but he's not infalli—what in the seven hells is he doing?"

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The Wolf in the Arena, Part 1 — Elijah Menchaca King's Dawn had come to Shadefall, and the town was the most alive any of the outsiders had ever seen.

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The Boy with the Shield, Part 4 — Elijah Menchaca With a sigh, he took off his jacket to keep it free of any blood.

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The Boy with the Shield, Part 2 — Elijah Menchaca “Now, tell me everything you think you know about your abilities.”

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The Boy with the Shield, Part 1 — Elijah Menchaca "That . . ." List struggled to find words to adequately convey the mixture of anger and utter befuddlement she was feeling. "That's the worst fu***ng educational rhyme I've ever heard."

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The Snake in the Garden, Part 4 — Elijah Menchaca Xigbar didn't know who he was more angry at—the thin-skinned, ham-handed, vindictive idiot who'd just stabbed him in the back, or himself for not seeing this coming.

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The Snake in the Garden, Part 3 — Elijah Menchaca Xigbar hated to admit it, but Arthur actually had a decent plan.

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The Snake in the Garden, Part 2 — Elijah Menchaca He could always stop antagonizing Arthur. But he had that perfect blend of pride and incompetence that made it too fun.

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The Snake in the Garden, Part 1 — Elijah Menchaca It was hard to tell when Larian Masters wasn't happy.

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The Monsters in the Cave, Part 4 — Elijah Menchaca The Monsters in the Cave, Part 4 The giant bubgear’s bellows echoed through the hills. “GORP MORP!” Valerie had never been more grateful for the physical conditioning Dr. Siren had put her through. The part of the wilderness the bugbears had called home was mostly hills, which meant after only...

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The Monsters in the Cave, Part 3 — Elijah Menchaca Valerie felt a pang of sympathy for the boy. Unless he'd lived a prodigiously unlucky life, this was bound to be the worst day of his life.

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The Monsters in the Cave, Part 2 — Elijah Menchaca Daniel Shen was going to die, alone and bleeding in a stinking hole in the ground.

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The Monsters in the Cave, Part 1 — Elijah Menchaca “This is Xykesh. The day we got here, this town had just come off the back of a week-long landshark problem. There’s got to be something that needs killing around here.”

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Outsiders 3.4 — Elijah Menchaca She had to admit, it was a pretty good secret entrance.

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Grey’s Anatomy, Progression Fantasy, and the Cross-Genre Appeal of Tropes — Elijah Menchaca This isn’t something I broadcast on the regular, but I have actually watched a lot of Grey’s Anatomy. None of it was by choice, which makes it all the weirder to me that I’m as invested in the show as I am.

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The Thief in the Road, Part 3 — Elijah Menchaca It was just sitting there, out in the open.

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The Thief on the Road, Part 2 — Elijah Menchaca “Where are you folks from?”

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The Man in the Hat, Part 4 — Elijah Menchaca “It’s so good to finally meet you, brave hero!”

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The Man in the Hat, Part 3 — Elijah Menchaca Valerie's voice was like a child who'd just brought in a stray, and was now desperately pleading with their parents to keep it.

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The Man in the Hat, Part 2 — Elijah Menchaca “Sorry to interupt, everyone,” Dr. Arden Lee Siren apologized. “But I’m afraid I can’t abide a lynching in good conscience.”

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The Man in the Hat, Part 1 — Elijah Menchaca Valerie coughed once, her face a mixture of relief and embarassment. “Dr. Siren. You’re here.”

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The Girl in the Cage, Part 4 — Elijah Menchaca List’s head snapped toward the jail’s door at the sound of the lock turning.

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The Girl in the Cage, Part 3 — Elijah Menchaca List really had given her s**t directions.

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My New Project: Outsiders of Xykesh — Elijah Menchaca More and more, I’ve been feeling drawn to long form, serialized storytelling. To stories about falling in love, becoming more powerful, and growing into adulthood. And I want to do all that. I want to make a story that is that. So, here’s the pitch:

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The Girl in the Cage, Part 2 — Elijah Menchaca Even for a logging village in the middle of nowhere, the jail was tiny.

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The Girl in the Cage, Part 1 — Elijah Menchaca A trail of mud-spattered footprints and puddles of water followed Valerie as she staggered into the saloon, finally out of the rain.

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They Met in a Tavern They used to be heroes . . . and it was all downhill from there. The Starbreakers were your classic teenage heroes. Using their combined powers and skills, they were the most successful group of glintchasers ...

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Snowfall — Elijah Menchaca Submit Request All pre-orders of They Met in a Tavern made before its publication day of August 10, 2021 are elligible to receive a free PDF copy of Snowfall, an exclusive short story prequel to They Met in a Tavern, telling the story of how the young heiress Chloe Guerron took her first steps to be...

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Character Playlist: Angel — Elijah Menchaca Angel began as an idea I had for a D&D character that I never got to really try out.

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The story of five ex-adventurers, gone their separate ways after a job gone bad, forced to reunite years later when a price is put on their heads.

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They Met In a Tavern — Elijah Menchaca The gang is getting back together…and they really wish they weren’t. To protect what they’ve built and find out who’s out to get them, the Starbreakers will have to reunite, and relearn how to work together. But a lot can change in seven years. And if mending old wounds was easy, they would ...

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In Defense of Fanfiction — Elijah Menchaca I want to answer the central argument, taking it as much as I can on face value: that fanfiction "actively teaches you to write worse." Does it?