It’s 1960s California, but wrong. The Connection is a cult trying to bridge worlds together. On another planet in another dimension, sentient praying mantid-like aliens make music, survive hurricane-speed winds, and dissect their prey. And they want Earth. Now.
Both humans and aliens are crawling through time and possessing souls to the tune of the slow and steady knot that is interconnected lives coming in contact with each other.
Astral plays favorites, but his collection of followers extends beyond them. They know they're not favorites, but they still feel a sense of belonging and purpose in the Connection, so they stay. Also the lack of transportation outside of the compound in the middle of the woods is also a deterrent from leaving.
The following is a list of other Connection members in order of when they joined + the second generation Connection members born into the cult. Except for Elsie. She's not part of the Connection and never will be because she hates Astral and all that she stands for. Luckily (for her), she's more powerful than him and doesn't consider him a threat.
Context for how we engage with this world and how you can too.
Science fantasy meets erotic and cosmic horror
Aliens are in control of the astral plane, accessible by meditation. Orgiastic energy helps fuel the bridges between worlds. Magic is molecular and vibrates with music.
We are so very pleased you are here.
Our four cultists are always in love. The love can be darling and pure, like Mac buying Georgie a tamale, or violent and dark, like Astral reminding Georgie to sew herself shut to outside influences, or somewhere poised on the edge of both. Love guides their actions, under will—destiny.
Magic is a molecule that can be activated by sound. It is accessible to anyone, but the exact manifestation varies from magician to magician. Some may not even know they're using magic, but the most powerful magicians can infect everything they touch. Astral and Teresa are among the most powerful magicians. He's too distracted by her beauty to be a good mentor.
Humanity is boring, and creatures are cool. Teresa's weak fleshy human body can get ripped in half by festering sludge of alien corpses breeding in the bottom of a pit. Mac as a human child can meet Georgie as a talking raccoon girl. Like a true fairy tale, Astral can transform a wild horse into Georgie.
Astral magic is a physical consequence of a magic molecule that responds to sound. The way that magicians manipulate the molecules is inherently magical, even if the mechanics are silly science fiction.
Speaking multiple languages, playing instruments, and very good motor control are all tools for better magic. Musicality of daily life can be incorporated into spells with intent.
Another type of magic on earth is terran magic, which is your standard wizardry. Spells and potions that come from ancient books. Living cells and their DNA harness electricity and generate heat, and terran magicians can detect and manipulate this energy. Terran life is green. Alien life is red. Necromancers manipulate life forces with terran magic and can kill and resurrect the dead. To date, there is only one necromancer in the world and it's Georgie!
First, there was a big bang. Then, there was a little bang. Now, they all bang.
Thick temperate forests and sandy hot deserts. Droughts and monsoons. Pits in deserted islands. The Devil's Tongue, a canyon in a California desert. Acres of pale grassy plains interrupted by deep caves that stretch on in every direction in the astral plane. Craggy red rocks jut out of the alien landscape orbiting a red dwarf. Everything and everything.
The active setting hovers around the West Coast from the 1960s to the 1990s on Earth.
All four cultists are magicians. Astral and Teresa are alienkin, starseeds, vessels for alien souls. Georgie and Mac are essentially human. The alien species doesn't have name, but their planet is called Jhi.
The human magicians are often human, but not always. Sometimes it is fun for them to be raccoons or dogs or horses.
The aliens are always praying mantis-esque. Astral has bull-like horns sprouting from the side of his head and Teresa has a unicorn horn. The sex differences are between small ones (Astral) and big ones (Teresa), but sometimes it is more important that they are especially gross, powerful, or cool, and their designs shift accordingly.
Two story-worlds before the connection, Georgie and Mac were born. The affair was messy, bloody, and violent, but Georgie discovered her gender and endured a year of silence waiting for Mac. The story ended just as the world turned cold.
The story-world before the Connection mirrored Twin Peaks with Georgie as trans!Laura Palmer and Mac as Bobby Briggs. Teresa, meant to die, ended up in a coma, but never joined them again.
On December 19th, 2018, the Connection story-world was born. Georgie, Mac, and Teresa were joined by a new character, Astral, the charismatic cult leader. Teresa became the future-mother of an alien hybrid, Georgie a magical midwife, and Mac a magical sponge. Every other member of the Connection started here as well, and we created our first antagonist: Elsie, the world's truly most powerful wizard.
In 2022, Mac & Georgie and Astral & Teresa crashed into each other in the sky and landed on a magical island with unspeakable horrors tucked in its deepest parts. They all lived this time, and more. In 2025, their story got shortened, and we're still working on it.
We're developing plans for a second world fantasy novel called Unkind Fire. Their story is very uncertain, but they'll have bigger encounters with the creatures that are chewing on the edges of the world.
Based on our alien x human body horror novella. Check out the board here
A tribute to Teresa and Astral. Check out the board here
Based on our cosmic horror epic fantasy novel. Check out the board here
Inspiration for Cross Pollination. Wild colors, impossible creatures, and mysteries. Go see it here.
Inspiration for Unkind Fire. Sculpture, deserts, and snails. Go see it here.
Music for when you've just met this girl you think is cute, so you invite her back to your alien sex magic cult where you're a literal queen, and you fall in love with her a lot.
Tidal playlist link: here
Music for when you're a dog in love in confusing, messy ways.
Tidal playlist link: here
Music for when you're just a teenage girl and your father's been brainwashing you to be so afraid of aliens that you kill them on sight.
Tidal playlist link: here
"A good heart expels evil in all forms"
Tidal playlist link: here
"Got some crushes and they're burning me up, bro, and only one's on you"
Tidal playlist link: here
In the 1990s, Georgie only has a handful of casettes she listens to. Here's all of them.
Tidal playlist link: here
The playlist we listen to when we work on our novella Cross Pollination.
Tidal playlist link: here
The playlist we listened to when we drafted Unkind Fire for the first time.
Tidal playlist link: here
The playlist we listened to when we were writing the original The Connection novel that became the novella Too Green Hands.
Tidal playlist link: here
The playlist we listen to as we write the story about Astral, an agoraphobic occult author, who collects followers only to be abducted by the aliens he's so terrified of and is turned into one.
Tidal playlist link: here
A science-fiction explanation for magical circumstances
A play about the death of life
Aliens infecting humans
Astral Parsons is named after Jack Parsons to evoke the history of Thelema
Its sense of magic and unexplainable beauty
Mechanically, in the rotating casts of actors in different contexts part
