Candy V (they/them) is a storyteller, poet, and filmmaker who has found themself aboard a Large Scale Logistics long-distance space freighter en route to Epsilon Eridani. Besieged by soulless AI, boredom, and creeping threats to their sanity, Candy has made it their life’s mission to create and share as much art as possible before it’s too late.

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Kenny and Maxi

9pm on a school night, the bathroom door is locked, the fan on, the faucet running. Eight year old Kenny is anxious, astonished, bewildered, curious, paralyzed and transfixed…

TW: Gender Dysphoria and Religious Trauma

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The Trailblazer

On a cold and damp morning, through a thick, foggy haze, I hiked along a familiar trail, until I discovered a blaze…

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Middle Earth Mojo

I’ve got the magic of old Bombadil. I’ve got Frodo’s PTSD. I’ve got the wanderlust of Bilbo. I’ve got the rage of tortured trees…  

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Salt

Last night I cried so hard that the angles forgot their errands and listened in, rubber-necking…

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Death is Reliable

I do not fear death, for death is reliable. It sings the oldest song, and if nothing else, the song is true…  

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By the Rocks Down at Crystal Cove

By the rocks, down at Crystal Cove, where salty crustaceans meander cross rows of brown and green seaweed all covered in foam, two rag-tag sailors did happen to roam…

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