Hello hello!
So I’ve been quietly doing a thing and I am done being quiet about it. I’m on Lantern! Custodian is up there going out episode by episode, and I have a door with my name on it that I can hold open for you.
Lantern is a private alpha for serialized fiction. Every genre on the shelf, invitation only, authors keep every right to their work, and there are no public popularity contests, so nobody is ranking my ruined priest against a hockey romance at two in the morning. You read the next chapter while it’s still being written. That’s the pitch and it’s a good one!
If you haven’t met Brother Anselm yet
He has kept spotless discipline for fourteen years. Flagellation on Tuesdays and Fridays. The canonical hours recited on schedule. Sermons on lust so pointed the blacksmith’s wife says they make her feel clean.
Then he finds something bleeding in the November leaves, carries it home, and locks it in the root cellar under a lie about a broken gate latch.
He builds a feeding stand at exactly twelve inches. He trains her the way a falconer trains a hawk. He fills a ledger with clinical notes about antler growth and dappled skin. He calls her demon the way he says Amen.
She calls him by the name he discarded the day he was ordained.
Custodian is here. Three years of confinement, confession, and a Summa that was never built to hold any of it.
Come in through my door
Here’s my invite link! codalanguez.com/go/joinlantern
Every Lantern member has a personal one now, and it only counts readers and writers who actually join through it, not clicks. So if you were going to wander in anyway, wander in through mine. Whoever brings in the most people in a given week gets featured on the homepage with a Lantern Builder badge, which means the entire alpha turned community growth into a blood sport in about four days. Self referrals are blocked. I checked. I am not proud of checking!
Come for the cliffhangers, stay for the Community Boards, get lost in the Worlds pages, and bring your weirdest unfinished thing.
