J.L. Forrest

J.L. Forrest is a writer of science fiction and dark fantasy. His stories have appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Crossed Genres, Third Flatiron, and elsewhere.

He is an Active member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and J.L. is the author of the novel Requies Dawn and the novella series Songs at the End of the World.

Series: Songs at the End of the World

Songs at the End of the World, Gods of the New Moons — Book II: Gods of the New Moons

Songs at the End of the World, When the World Ends — Book I: When the World Ends

Short Fictions & Collections

Minuscule Truths, Short Fictions — Collection II: Minuscule Truths

Short Fiction, Delicate Ministrations — Collection I: Delicate Ministrations

Requies Dawn

The Eternal Requiem, Requies Dawn — Requies Dawn: A Novel

The Eternal Requiem
Book I

This first book of The Eternal Requiem follows the resurrected goddess, Sultah yw Sabi, as she wages an impossible war to right unspeakable wrongs in a far and unfamiliar future.

"Alone" by Edgar Allan Poe
From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were—I have not seen
As others saw—I could not bring
My passions from a common spring—
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow—I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone—
And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone—
Then—in my childhood—in the dawn
Of a most stormy life—was drawn
From ev’ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still—
From the torrent, or the fountain—
From the red cliff of the mountain—
From the sun that ’round me roll’d
In its autumn tint of gold—
From the lightning in the sky
As it pass’d me flying by—
From the thunder, and the storm—
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view—