The Lost Tales of Emerson Kaye
Someone once described my Underverse Series as Narnia meets NASA.
Someone else called it Girl Boss Trash.
Opinions differ.
 
Think of The Lost Tales of Emerson Kaye as a prequel with a twist. A story set three hundred years before Rebecca Lopez fell into the Underverse. Some things will feel familiar if you’ve read The Last Queen of the Underverse. Others may quietly reframe what you thought you knew about the world before the Underverse.
 
There’s love and loss here. Fighting, stubborn hope, and more than a little self-righteous commentary from an immortal who really should know better.
 
This is Emerson’s story. Or at least, it’s the version he allowed me to write. And yes, there’s a non-zero chance it could get banned. Wouldn’t that be something?
 
About the Short Story (and the Notes That Follow)
Emerson Kaye has been drifting in and out of my life for decades. He appears without warning, knows things he shouldn’t, says exactly what I need to hear, and vanishes again before I can decide whether to trust him. I used to think that made him charming. Lately, I’m not so sure.
 
The Lost Tales of Emerson Kaye is a collection of journal entries, recollections, and conversations gathered over the years. Stories about bars and friendships, love and lust, faith and doubt, parenthood, regret, and the strange comfort of being truly seen by someone who never seems to age.
 
At first, these entries read like memory. Over time, they begin to feel like something else entirely.
 
As the pattern sharpens, one question refuses to go away:
Was I writing these stories to remember Emerson…
Or because Emerson wanted me to keep writing?
 
Wry, intimate, and quietly unsettling, The Lost Tales of Emerson Kaye sits at the crossroads of memoir and metafiction, where friendship blurs into surveillance and storytelling becomes an obligation. This is a book about the people who haunt us, the stories that refuse to stay quiet, and what it means to answer when there’s a knock at the door.
 
Reader’s Note
This is a work of fiction. While it draws on emotional truths and imagined histories, all characters, events, and conversations are fictional. Any resemblance to real people or actual events is coincidental and unintended.
 
Even if any of this were true, no one would ever believe me anyway.
 
Content & Tone Advisory
While the story keeps its tongue firmly in cheek, it does wander through a few darker corridors: loss, memory, survival, and the occasional cosmic brawl. There are monsters here. Some are made of nightmares. Others are made of memories. None linger long enough to be truly terrifying, but they do bite now and then. Expect stylized fantasy violence, emotional peril, and the kind of danger that makes a story worth telling. No gore. No cruelty for cruelty’s sake. Just a few bruised hearts, a cracked sky, and the occasional good laugh in the dark.
 
Recommended for readers fourteen and up
(and anyone who still believes doors can lead anywhere).
 
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