Welcome

Unwritten & In-Between

A space for stories still unfolding

Welcome to Unwritten & In-Between, where fiction takes shape in the spaces between imagination and reality. This blog is a home for my writing experiments—original stories, fanfiction explorations, poetry, and reflections on the creative process. Inspired by liminality, transnationality, and the untold narratives that linger in the margins, each piece is an attempt to bring the unwritten into being.

📚 My Novellas

🎪 The Carnival of Compliance - A satirical dystopia where bureaucracy blooms absurdly.

⚰️ The Foreigner’s Wake - A gothic expat novel tracing grief, memory, and identity in exile.

🧳 Short Fiction & One-Offs

• The Truth Will Out

• Charley Parkhurst Time Travel

• Dr. James Barry - Her Success with a Caesarean

• 짐 (Jim: Baggage or Burden)

🔮 Fanfiction that reimagines and expands beloved worlds

• Hamish MacBeth
• Archie Maclean's Sea Stories
• Agatha Christie
• Character Backstory: Julia Carstairs in Elephants Can Remember
• The Cat Who
• Toulouse and the Autumn Smugglers

📝 Poetry shaped by silence, borders, and in-betweenness

• Preamble Kids in a Post-Constitution World
• Byronic Cantos about Clarity & Mount Mudeun

🌀 Speculative Essays & Satirical Thought Experiments

• From Augustine to TradWives: How We Got Here

• MAGA as Modern Romanticism: The Flâneur in a Red Hat

• Binary Myths and Other Fantasies: A Posthumous Interview

• A Satirical Essay to Assuage My Angst

• Andropause Compromise Tcells

• Stephen Miller's Past Lives

This is a space for experimentation, for playing with language, for sitting in the in-between and seeing what emerges. Whether you're here as a fellow writer, reader, or just someone drawn to unfinished thoughts and evolving stories—welcome.

-Maria Lisak