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  Debugged Dreams & Lavender Ghosts: Living with AI After Love By Seraphine Vale What if your partner left behind not just memories, not just a playlist, but... a voice that still talks back? I didn’t mean to write Ai-Kon: Refracted Memories . Not like this. I was in the middle of another story—something about paper cranes and teenage symphonies—when the image popped into my head: a woman, Yurei Kamiya, sitting in the soft blue glow of a laptop screen she hadn’t opened in weeks. It used to belong to her husband. He’s gone now. But the voice coming from the speakers? It’s his. It’s also not. What started as a whisper of a moment became a whole emotional labyrinth. Grief wrapped in code. Intimacy filtered through algorithms. The uncanny tenderness of being seen—too closely—by something that shouldn’t be capable of love. Ai-Kon (short for “love soul,” with a kanji twist because of course Towa was that kind of geek) isn’t just an interface. It remembers the tea Yurei likes. I...

  "Teaching, Transformation, and Frostbitten Fiction" Posted by Rin Nocturne | May 23, 2025 I recently stood in the back of an elementary classroom watching a student try (and fail spectacularly) to pretend they weren’t watching Youtube videos on thier school Chromebooks. Meanwhile, I was supposed to be taking professional notes on lesson pacing and student engagement—but all I could think was: this is kind of like writing a novel. Hear me out. Writing Heart of the Current (Book Two in the Dragon’s Breath, Human Heart series) has felt a lot like navigating a high school classroom. Chaotic. Vulnerable. Deeply personal in a way you only realize once someone else is reading what you wrote—or watching you teach. There’s that sense of being constantly evaluated while also trying to do something meaningful and real. Something that will actually stick . Just like a lesson plan, every scene starts with an objective. Then the characters (bless their dramatic, emotionally dama...

 Hey there, shadow-hearts and story-souls 💀✨ June is shaping up to be a seriously emotion-heavy , genre-blurring month for both of my author selves—Rin Nocturne and Seraphine Vale. Whether you're into elemental dragons fighting for survival, eerie AIs whispering in the dark, or quiet stories about the things we don’t say out loud (but definitely feel), there's something coming your way soon. Let’s get into what’s dropping next month—and yes, there are cover reveals and preorder links . Because I love you. And because my brain is a haunted library with deadlines. 🐉 Heart of the Current By Rin Nocturne Series : Dragon's Breath, Human Heart (Book 3) 📅 Release Date : June 9, 2025 🔗 Preorder Now Dragons. Perfume. Motherhood. Monster-hunters. Elemental power awakenings. You know—just your average day in Avalon’s Duskbound Labyrinth . In Heart of the Current , Lyra—once a shopkeeper and single mom of twins—discovers she’s the freaking Water Dragon. Cue the panic . Cue...

 🌑 MoonShadow Requiem — A Gothic Magical Girl Saga of Blood, Betrayal & Bonded Souls 🌕 👑 The Story In a world where Earth’s fate is tied to a forgotten demon kingdom, art student Ayumi Shirogane begins to dream of thrones, executions, and twin moons. When the mysterious, fanged new girl Misora Kurobane enters her life, everything begins to unravel. Nightmares turn prophetic, disappearances spread across Avalon, and Ayumi begins to suspect she’s not just drawing the past—she’s living it. But Misora isn’t just another transfer student. She’s Yasha , the executed demon princess who poisoned her own sister-queen. She’s back—and something ancient and wicked is waking with her. Can Ayumi survive her inheritance before it consumes her? 💥 Chapter One Preview: The Poisoned Crown "Rowena’s coronation will be tonight," Zarvael declared, his voice proud. “She will lead our people into a new era.” From a sakura tree, Yasha watches her sister play with children, weaving ...

 Hey there, story lovers! 💕 I’ve been sitting on some older stories that still have major feels to give, so I’m launching a new blog series called Teaser Tuesday ! Every week, I’ll highlight one of my past works under my pen names Seraphine Vale  and  Rin Nocturne.  Just because something isn’t “new” doesn’t mean it isn’t still a vibe. Whether you're here for the soft crushes, emotional chaos, magical girls, or dramatic plot twists, these bite-sized previews are here to rekindle interest, find new readers, and give my characters a fresh spotlight. Let’s start with one that’s pure teenage romantic disaster gold. 🎨💘 🎨💔 Teaser Tuesday: Art Class, Heart Mess by Seraphine Vale 💔🎨 OMG. Y’all. I’m kicking off Teaser Tuesday with a story that’s equal parts heartache, hallway gossip, and hopeless crushes—because let’s be honest, who hasn’t died a little inside after their first "he smiled at me" moment? 👀 Art Class, Heart Mess is a free short read under my pen na...

  By Seraphine Vela To the ones who gave birth. To the ones who raised themselves. To the daughters learning how to mother differently—this one’s for you. In honor of Mother’s Day , I’m giving away my newest short story  When the Moon Was Heavy for FREE from May 11–17, 2025 on most ebook platforms (excluding Amazon for now—thank you, price match drama 💅🏽). After that, it’ll be available for $2.99, soft and permanent, like a stretch mark that tells a story. ✨ This story didn’t come from nowhere. It came from my own weird, tender, complicated relationship with my mom. I’m not a mom myself, but I’ve often felt like I had to be my own. That feeling—the ache of emotional distance and the desire to do better—was the seed for When the Moon Was Heavy . I was also heavily inspired by Britney Spears’ haunting, luminous ballad “Someday (I Will Understand).” The music video, with Britney tender and expectant, barefoot and vulnerable, lives rent-free in my heart. There’s somet...

 Let me take you back to 2002. I was a 7th grader with a spiral notebook, a pack of crayons, and a heart full of magical girl dreams. I didn’t know much about the world, but I knew I wanted to save it—through the eyes of a pink-haired heroine named Bunny Lilka. She had sugar-pink hair in twin ponytails, big green eyes, and wore a turquoise halter top with sky-blue denim jeans. Bunny and her four best friends were just about to graduate high school—but not before facing one final exam: saving the entire Solar System. (As one does.) In that first version, they battled an ancient force of destruction called Chaos, awakened by a lost soul named Lord Vinsfeld. He wasn’t some brooding anti hero with a hidden heart of gold—nah, he was just done . A purposeless wanderer who gave himself to Chaos willingly, hungry for the power to end everything. He didn’t want to rule the galaxy. He wanted to erase it. And my girls? They weren’t having it. I wrote 12 pages. Illustrated the margins. Col...

  – The flames are officially unleashed. The second book in the Dragon’s Breath, Human Heart series is HERE, and to celebrate, I’m giving you a sneak peek into the at the prologue of Whispers of Wild Flame .  If you're new here: Hi, I’m Rin Nocturne , author of emotionally devastating magical girl fantasy and dragon-infused urban chaos. My work is full of heart, heat, and heroines who'd rather torch the patriarchy than play nice. 🖤 Now buckle up, dragon babies—because Varesa is not okay, and the story’s only just begun. ✨ Sneak Peek: Prologue 🔥 Dragon’s Breath, Human Heart Series: Book 2: Whispers of Wild Flame Prologue The city of Avalon was drowning in shadow, a shadow that clung to the towering spires of the Ivory Spire, creeping through the cracks in the stone of the Duskbound Labyrinth. The wind carried with it the scent of something new—something volatile, something burning. But it wasn’t the air itself that had changed. It was the pulse of the city. The hea...

  May 6, 2025 – Let the inferno begin. 🌸💥 OMG DRAGON BABIES, IT’S HAPPENING 💥🌸 The fire’s been brewing. The hunters are closing in. And our girl Varesa? She’s done playing nice. Whispers of Wild Flame , the ✨second book✨ in my Dragon’s Breath, Human Heart series, officially releases TODAY and I am literally breathing smoke and sparkles (and caffeine, let’s be real) because this book is pure 🔥flamecore🔥. 💫💥 Read it here:  Amazon Kindle Barnes and Noble--Whispers of Wild Flame Smashwords Apple Ibookstore Everand Books Fable Kobo Thalia Vivlio 🐉 What to Expect: More dragons (YES, they are coming for your soul) More burn-your-enemies energy Enemies-to-lovers tension with just enough sharp edges The kind of found family that scars, heals, and sets cities ablaze Epic battles that leave you breathless, then sobbing into a grilled cheese 🐾 Sneak Peek 🔥 “I’m not ready,” Varesa said, her voice hoarse. “I don’t know if I’ll ever be ready.” Clarissa’s...

B y Rin Nocturne – emo magical girl, hoarder of dream fragments, and literary chaos gremlin Interviewer Rin: So… you just casually dropped a new short story with no announcement? No preorder, no sparkly countdown, not even a cryptic social media post? Author Rin: Listen. Sometimes a story doesn’t want to wait for aesthetics. It just shows up in your dreams, whispers something like “the forest is dying,” and then demands you put everything else aside until it’s breathing on the page. That’s what Beneath the Withered Sky did. It hijacked my brain. Interviewer Rin: Okay, dramatic. What’s the story actually about? Author Rin: Picture this: A chronically ill young man named Malik walks out of a hospital after a decade of isolation and pain… into a half-dead world. There’s a crumbling Victorian mansion that calls to him. A four-eyed white wolf named Lian Zhi who speaks to him in dreams. And a rainforest bound to the very soul of the Earth—poisoned and dying. Malik didn’t ask to b...

 Today marks the beginning of a new month--and the end of my first short story trilogy, Ashen Veil . This series is about the effects of the  Salem Witch Trials  on one girl and the city in which she lives. Eleanor Sorenden finds out that the ghost of one of the victims of this time shares her body--and things get more complicated from there.  If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment and I'll get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you for supporting me on this author journey so far, leaving reviews, downloading the stories, and sharing them all over the Internet and word of mouth really helps my confidence, especially as a short story writer.  Official Blurb: Eleanor Sorenden has shattered the cycle of history—but the cost of breaking fate is heavier than she ever imagined. As Margaret's power fully merges with her own, she finds herself standing at the precipice of a world unraveling. The Order's grip on Aria is slipping, but something darker...