Lakelyn Alder
@lakelynalder.bsky.social
Fantasy author.
Short stories and flash fiction. 💫
Dark fantasy with a touch of horror. 💀
High fantasy with plenty of magic. ✨
Short stories and flash fiction. 💫
Dark fantasy with a touch of horror. 💀
High fantasy with plenty of magic. ✨
It’s my birthday weekend and I’m celebrating by setting
A Seed Of Magic 🎉 F R E E 🎉
on all Amazon stores!
Grab a little fantasy to your life.✨
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A Seed Of Magic 🎉 F R E E 🎉
on all Amazon stores!
Grab a little fantasy to your life.✨
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August 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
It’s my birthday weekend and I’m celebrating by setting
A Seed Of Magic 🎉 F R E E 🎉
on all Amazon stores!
Grab a little fantasy to your life.✨
🤏📚 | 🪐📚 | 💙📚
A Seed Of Magic 🎉 F R E E 🎉
on all Amazon stores!
Grab a little fantasy to your life.✨
🤏📚 | 🪐📚 | 💙📚
Grow a seed. Find the path. Pass the test.
A Seed Of Magic
🌱 Elves
🌱 Gardening Magic
🌱 High Fantasy
🌱 Coming of Age
🌱 Short story
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A Seed Of Magic
🌱 Elves
🌱 Gardening Magic
🌱 High Fantasy
🌱 Coming of Age
🌱 Short story
Read now:
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Add to Goodreads:
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August 21, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Grow a seed. Find the path. Pass the test.
A Seed Of Magic
🌱 Elves
🌱 Gardening Magic
🌱 High Fantasy
🌱 Coming of Age
🌱 Short story
Read now:
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Add to Goodreads:
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A Seed Of Magic
🌱 Elves
🌱 Gardening Magic
🌱 High Fantasy
🌱 Coming of Age
🌱 Short story
Read now:
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Add to Goodreads:
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Shadows That Hunt 🗡️
⚔️ Short story
⚔️ Dark fantasy
⚔️ Shadow magic
⚔️ Fast paced, quick read
⚔️ Morally grey FMC
Read in Kobo+ 📖
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⚔️ Short story
⚔️ Dark fantasy
⚔️ Shadow magic
⚔️ Fast paced, quick read
⚔️ Morally grey FMC
Read in Kobo+ 📖
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August 19, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Shadows That Hunt 🗡️
⚔️ Short story
⚔️ Dark fantasy
⚔️ Shadow magic
⚔️ Fast paced, quick read
⚔️ Morally grey FMC
Read in Kobo+ 📖
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⚔️ Short story
⚔️ Dark fantasy
⚔️ Shadow magic
⚔️ Fast paced, quick read
⚔️ Morally grey FMC
Read in Kobo+ 📖
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Grab some female rage and stabbiness to your TBR!
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August 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Grab some female rage and stabbiness to your TBR!
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She knows the Winds, but will she listen when they sing of change?
🪶 High fantasy
🪶 Short story
🪶 Elves
🪶 Hawks & wind magic
🪶 Loss & new beginning
Available in KU
Add to Goodreads:
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Read now:
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🪶 High fantasy
🪶 Short story
🪶 Elves
🪶 Hawks & wind magic
🪶 Loss & new beginning
Available in KU
Add to Goodreads:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
Read now:
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July 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
She knows the Winds, but will she listen when they sing of change?
🪶 High fantasy
🪶 Short story
🪶 Elves
🪶 Hawks & wind magic
🪶 Loss & new beginning
Available in KU
Add to Goodreads:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
Read now:
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🤏📚 | 🪐📚 | 💙📚
🪶 High fantasy
🪶 Short story
🪶 Elves
🪶 Hawks & wind magic
🪶 Loss & new beginning
Available in KU
Add to Goodreads:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
Read now:
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🗡️ Where the line of good and evil blurs the realm of Shadow Dancers begins. 🗡️
⚔️ Short story
⚔️ Dark fantasy
⚔️ Shadow magic
⚔️ Fast paced, quick read
⚔️ Morally grey FMC
Read in Kobo+ 📖
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Read now:
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⚔️ Short story
⚔️ Dark fantasy
⚔️ Shadow magic
⚔️ Fast paced, quick read
⚔️ Morally grey FMC
Read in Kobo+ 📖
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Read now:
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Add to Goodreads:
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July 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
🗡️ Where the line of good and evil blurs the realm of Shadow Dancers begins. 🗡️
⚔️ Short story
⚔️ Dark fantasy
⚔️ Shadow magic
⚔️ Fast paced, quick read
⚔️ Morally grey FMC
Read in Kobo+ 📖
🤏📚 | 🪐📚 | 💙📚
Read now:
books2read.com/u/310xo7
Add to Goodreads:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
⚔️ Short story
⚔️ Dark fantasy
⚔️ Shadow magic
⚔️ Fast paced, quick read
⚔️ Morally grey FMC
Read in Kobo+ 📖
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Read now:
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Add to Goodreads:
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Have you read Feather In The Wind yet? 🪶
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June 28, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Have you read Feather In The Wind yet? 🪶
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#fantasyindiesjune Day 26 (late, oops!)
Subgenres…
✨ Sacrifice of Darkness and Light - dark fantasy & horror
✨ Shadows That Hunt - dark fantasy & adventure
✨ A Seed Of Magic /
✨ Feather In The Wind - high fantasy & slice of life
💫 WIP Dagger - dark fantasy & heist
💫 WIP Thorns - dark fantasy
Subgenres…
✨ Sacrifice of Darkness and Light - dark fantasy & horror
✨ Shadows That Hunt - dark fantasy & adventure
✨ A Seed Of Magic /
✨ Feather In The Wind - high fantasy & slice of life
💫 WIP Dagger - dark fantasy & heist
💫 WIP Thorns - dark fantasy
June 28, 2025 at 12:57 AM
#fantasyindiesjune Day 26 (late, oops!)
Subgenres…
✨ Sacrifice of Darkness and Light - dark fantasy & horror
✨ Shadows That Hunt - dark fantasy & adventure
✨ A Seed Of Magic /
✨ Feather In The Wind - high fantasy & slice of life
💫 WIP Dagger - dark fantasy & heist
💫 WIP Thorns - dark fantasy
Subgenres…
✨ Sacrifice of Darkness and Light - dark fantasy & horror
✨ Shadows That Hunt - dark fantasy & adventure
✨ A Seed Of Magic /
✨ Feather In The Wind - high fantasy & slice of life
💫 WIP Dagger - dark fantasy & heist
💫 WIP Thorns - dark fantasy
She knows the Winds, but will she listen when they sing of change?
🪶 High fantasy
🪶 Short story
🪶 Elves
🪶 Hawks & wind magic
🪶 Loss & new beginning
📖 Read in KU!
🤏📚 | 🪐📚 | 💙📚
🪶 High fantasy
🪶 Short story
🪶 Elves
🪶 Hawks & wind magic
🪶 Loss & new beginning
📖 Read in KU!
🤏📚 | 🪐📚 | 💙📚
June 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
She knows the Winds, but will she listen when they sing of change?
🪶 High fantasy
🪶 Short story
🪶 Elves
🪶 Hawks & wind magic
🪶 Loss & new beginning
📖 Read in KU!
🤏📚 | 🪐📚 | 💙📚
🪶 High fantasy
🪶 Short story
🪶 Elves
🪶 Hawks & wind magic
🪶 Loss & new beginning
📖 Read in KU!
🤏📚 | 🪐📚 | 💙📚
Grow a seed. Find the path. Pass the test.
After fifty years of waiting The Aurumeik finally bears a single fruit and signals the start of the trials.
This is Koivlar’s chance to prove himself to the Master Gardener and make his dream of becoming her apprentice a reality.
🌱 Elves 🌱 Gardening magic
After fifty years of waiting The Aurumeik finally bears a single fruit and signals the start of the trials.
This is Koivlar’s chance to prove himself to the Master Gardener and make his dream of becoming her apprentice a reality.
🌱 Elves 🌱 Gardening magic
June 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Grow a seed. Find the path. Pass the test.
After fifty years of waiting The Aurumeik finally bears a single fruit and signals the start of the trials.
This is Koivlar’s chance to prove himself to the Master Gardener and make his dream of becoming her apprentice a reality.
🌱 Elves 🌱 Gardening magic
After fifty years of waiting The Aurumeik finally bears a single fruit and signals the start of the trials.
This is Koivlar’s chance to prove himself to the Master Gardener and make his dream of becoming her apprentice a reality.
🌱 Elves 🌱 Gardening magic
June 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
#fantasyindiesjune Day 19
I think they believe in fate to some degree. I need to write more to figure it out. 😁
I think they believe in fate to some degree. I need to write more to figure it out. 😁
June 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
#fantasyindiesjune Day 19
I think they believe in fate to some degree. I need to write more to figure it out. 😁
I think they believe in fate to some degree. I need to write more to figure it out. 😁
#fantasyindiesjune Day 18
Uh, this is a hard one, but I think I’d like to leard druid magic. I like gardening and I’ve been playing a druid in my DnD campaign for the last 2 years. 🌱🪴
Uh, this is a hard one, but I think I’d like to leard druid magic. I like gardening and I’ve been playing a druid in my DnD campaign for the last 2 years. 🌱🪴
June 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
#fantasyindiesjune Day 18
Uh, this is a hard one, but I think I’d like to leard druid magic. I like gardening and I’ve been playing a druid in my DnD campaign for the last 2 years. 🌱🪴
Uh, this is a hard one, but I think I’d like to leard druid magic. I like gardening and I’ve been playing a druid in my DnD campaign for the last 2 years. 🌱🪴
June 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
#fantasyindiesjune Day 16
WIP: Thorns
Garty is denitely lucky and a bit superstitious about it.
Harris is pretty neutral on luck and doesn’t consider himself lucky or unlucky. He’s make your own luck kinda guy.
A has been unlucky, and now relies on her daggers more than luck.
WIP: Thorns
Garty is denitely lucky and a bit superstitious about it.
Harris is pretty neutral on luck and doesn’t consider himself lucky or unlucky. He’s make your own luck kinda guy.
A has been unlucky, and now relies on her daggers more than luck.
June 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
#fantasyindiesjune Day 16
WIP: Thorns
Garty is denitely lucky and a bit superstitious about it.
Harris is pretty neutral on luck and doesn’t consider himself lucky or unlucky. He’s make your own luck kinda guy.
A has been unlucky, and now relies on her daggers more than luck.
WIP: Thorns
Garty is denitely lucky and a bit superstitious about it.
Harris is pretty neutral on luck and doesn’t consider himself lucky or unlucky. He’s make your own luck kinda guy.
A has been unlucky, and now relies on her daggers more than luck.
#fantasyindiesjune Day 14
Tension:
“Maybe this evening still could be salvaged, if he took my warning to heart. But no, of course not. The dumb fuck just smiled, revealing several gaps between his teeth. I took a steadying breath and set my mug aside.”
- Shadows That Hunt
Tension:
“Maybe this evening still could be salvaged, if he took my warning to heart. But no, of course not. The dumb fuck just smiled, revealing several gaps between his teeth. I took a steadying breath and set my mug aside.”
- Shadows That Hunt
June 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
#fantasyindiesjune Day 14
Tension:
“Maybe this evening still could be salvaged, if he took my warning to heart. But no, of course not. The dumb fuck just smiled, revealing several gaps between his teeth. I took a steadying breath and set my mug aside.”
- Shadows That Hunt
Tension:
“Maybe this evening still could be salvaged, if he took my warning to heart. But no, of course not. The dumb fuck just smiled, revealing several gaps between his teeth. I took a steadying breath and set my mug aside.”
- Shadows That Hunt
#fantasyindiesjune Day 12 & 13
In The Song No One Sings if Drinim could go back in time, he definitely would go hunting somewhere else than the forbidden valley…
And I’m not superstitious, but also like I’m not -not- superstitious. Why poke the bear? 😂
In The Song No One Sings if Drinim could go back in time, he definitely would go hunting somewhere else than the forbidden valley…
And I’m not superstitious, but also like I’m not -not- superstitious. Why poke the bear? 😂
June 14, 2025 at 10:57 AM
#fantasyindiesjune Day 12 & 13
In The Song No One Sings if Drinim could go back in time, he definitely would go hunting somewhere else than the forbidden valley…
And I’m not superstitious, but also like I’m not -not- superstitious. Why poke the bear? 😂
In The Song No One Sings if Drinim could go back in time, he definitely would go hunting somewhere else than the forbidden valley…
And I’m not superstitious, but also like I’m not -not- superstitious. Why poke the bear? 😂
She knows the Winds, but will she listen when they sing of change?
🪶 High fantasy
🪶 Short story
🪶 Elves
🪶 Hawks & wind magic
🪶 Dealing with grief & new beginning
🤏📚 | 🪐📚 | 💙📚
Add to Goodreads:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
Read now:
books2read.com/u/mloA8P
🪶 High fantasy
🪶 Short story
🪶 Elves
🪶 Hawks & wind magic
🪶 Dealing with grief & new beginning
🤏📚 | 🪐📚 | 💙📚
Add to Goodreads:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
Read now:
books2read.com/u/mloA8P
June 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
She knows the Winds, but will she listen when they sing of change?
🪶 High fantasy
🪶 Short story
🪶 Elves
🪶 Hawks & wind magic
🪶 Dealing with grief & new beginning
🤏📚 | 🪐📚 | 💙📚
Add to Goodreads:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
Read now:
books2read.com/u/mloA8P
🪶 High fantasy
🪶 Short story
🪶 Elves
🪶 Hawks & wind magic
🪶 Dealing with grief & new beginning
🤏📚 | 🪐📚 | 💙📚
Add to Goodreads:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
Read now:
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#fantasyindiesjune Day 11
WIP Thorns.
Garty likes puzzles & finding clues,
Harris likes keeping his friend group together and
A likes to stab things. 😁
WIP Thorns.
Garty likes puzzles & finding clues,
Harris likes keeping his friend group together and
A likes to stab things. 😁
June 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
#fantasyindiesjune Day 11
WIP Thorns.
Garty likes puzzles & finding clues,
Harris likes keeping his friend group together and
A likes to stab things. 😁
WIP Thorns.
Garty likes puzzles & finding clues,
Harris likes keeping his friend group together and
A likes to stab things. 😁
I have to share this review I got for Feather In The Wind 🥹🥰
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June 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I have to share this review I got for Feather In The Wind 🥹🥰
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#fantasyindiesjune Day 10
WIP Thorns.
Depends on the curse, but
Garty would try to joke it away,
Harris would try to think ways around it and
A would try to stab it away. 😁
WIP Thorns.
Depends on the curse, but
Garty would try to joke it away,
Harris would try to think ways around it and
A would try to stab it away. 😁
June 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
#fantasyindiesjune Day 10
WIP Thorns.
Depends on the curse, but
Garty would try to joke it away,
Harris would try to think ways around it and
A would try to stab it away. 😁
WIP Thorns.
Depends on the curse, but
Garty would try to joke it away,
Harris would try to think ways around it and
A would try to stab it away. 😁
#fantasyindiesjune Day 9
WIP Thorns Moodboard.
WIP Thorns Moodboard.
June 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
#fantasyindiesjune Day 9
WIP Thorns Moodboard.
WIP Thorns Moodboard.
#fantasyindiesjune Day 8
WIP Thorns.
Garty would be horrified to let slip that he has feelings for A.
WIP Thorns.
Garty would be horrified to let slip that he has feelings for A.
June 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
#fantasyindiesjune Day 8
WIP Thorns.
Garty would be horrified to let slip that he has feelings for A.
WIP Thorns.
Garty would be horrified to let slip that he has feelings for A.
Because sometimes, the Winds carry more than just sand. Sometimes, they carry stories yet to be told.
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June 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Because sometimes, the Winds carry more than just sand. Sometimes, they carry stories yet to be told.
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#fantasyindiesjune Day 7
WIP Thorns Snippet: Magic ✨
He murmured the spell to activate the runes and a soft blue glow filled the lantern. The light was strong enough to illuminate them and few paces ahead. It didn't flicker or require anything to burn as long as the runes were charged. 🕯️
WIP Thorns Snippet: Magic ✨
He murmured the spell to activate the runes and a soft blue glow filled the lantern. The light was strong enough to illuminate them and few paces ahead. It didn't flicker or require anything to burn as long as the runes were charged. 🕯️
June 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
#fantasyindiesjune Day 7
WIP Thorns Snippet: Magic ✨
He murmured the spell to activate the runes and a soft blue glow filled the lantern. The light was strong enough to illuminate them and few paces ahead. It didn't flicker or require anything to burn as long as the runes were charged. 🕯️
WIP Thorns Snippet: Magic ✨
He murmured the spell to activate the runes and a soft blue glow filled the lantern. The light was strong enough to illuminate them and few paces ahead. It didn't flicker or require anything to burn as long as the runes were charged. 🕯️