Blue Horizon short stories.

Click to read Blue Horizon: these days of love. (18+ excerpt.) Outside link at Dreamwidth.

Title: Blue Horizon – these days of love.

Genre: Fluff

Rating: For ages 18+!

Content warning: Implied depression, implied past harassment (not between the main protagonists involved)

Spoiler warning: Alejandro Altaha’s (Shakir’s) view of Antonio Chandrani-Rivera (Nasir Hadid-Salah) within the overarching story; vaguer implication of a future storyline; general implications regarding Alejandro and Antonio’s relationship within Blue Horizon; their place of study, which is already revealed in the more secret routes of Blue Horizon: Hibiscus, or the Loved Garden Paths of Raj Rivera

Summary:

Antonio slammed his own suite’s door open. His breath sucked right into his mouth.

Alejandro was sitting there again, right on his bed.

He had Antonio’s tired, teal, flower-patterned blankets wrapped around himself like last time. He’d left Antonio’s teal pillow where it was instead of hug it again. Long dark hair fell all over, not particularly sexy—certainly disheveled.

Alejandro greeted him as Antonio closed and locked the door, gawking.

Alejandro said, charmingly, “Hello.”

Author’s notes: To be honest, since a lot of Blue Horizon has been planned out, I’ve been writing smut that will debut in later books for a few months.

This was already written; I plan to write an alternate version, even with some similarity, for a more finalized draft. However, I’ve decided to drop it as it is right now.

This is in protest and critique of recent actions of sites and processors who host and until thus-far have allowed indie and adult media across the board, who have been taking shit actions out of apparent “pressure.” I agree that people should utilize collective power to increase pressure in the opposite manner and threshold.

While this is canon compliant to Blue Horizon and I consider Antonio and Alejandro’s sex life canon AF, one day I may label this particular scene “canon divergent.” Again, it is an excerpt from later novels which may turn out totally different in the future.

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( Click to read BLUE HORIZON: these days of love. 18+ excerpt. Outside link at Dreamwidth. )

Alternatively, you can download it via Bookfunnel here if you prefer it for whatever reason.

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03/02/2025 update: The full 18,000-word interactive fiction game is now up! It's illustrated. The link will lead to it.

02/18/2025 update: A work-in-progress text-based game called "Blue Horizon: hibiscus." Will note every update. Eventually, I'll make this into a small visual novel, though it won't happen particularly soon.

This [currently] short story (and eventual text-based game) spoils: family relationships, a part of the mechanics of how their "soul energy" works, a small amount of backstory. Unlike previous public supplementary Blue Horizon material, it has more of a touch of its serious side to it.

Warning: Discussion of filicide and implied genocide.

Blue Horizon: hibiscus. (Click to read.)

The Red brother. Antonio Chandrani-Rivera. The one who must cultivate a world for himself.

The Golden brother. Fernando Chandrani-Rivera. The one who must not fear his soul that matches others’.

The Silver brother. Rajab Chandrani-Rivera. Sheer perfection.

Triplet brothers! Their atheist father, Ranvir Chandrani, he would never call them anything like ‘little devas.’ A comforting atmosphere. Always, always.

Always, always.

Always.

Always…

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( hdei 💛ls iystq, hdei yst0d💛! )

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ANTONIO CHANDRANI'S DREAM BLOG. EARTH YEAR 2005. (Click to read.)

[04/21/2024.] Approximately 2500 words long. Told via Antonio Chandrani-Rivera's "secret" [Tumblr] blog and transcripted on Neocities.

Summary: The story follows Antonio's curiosity over a rare book Alejandro has gifted him that's encrypted with runes. He manages to break the spell on it and find out what Alejandro has hidden for him inside--and becomes upset, as it's a precious item the world over assumed Alejandro would give to his rumored potential beloved (the biggest rumored people being Khalida, Alia, Diego or Konna). When Antonio confronts Alejandro, Alejandro confesses that he thought that Antonio would trash the precious item.

(Here it is on the original Tumblr, though it's harder to read in order there.)

As of 04/11/2025, Antonio Chandrani's Dream Blog now has a second storyline...!

Antonio is assuming he has surprising time-jump-like access to a popular blogging site in the year 2005 A.D. despite being born 100,000 years in the future.

For... THIS SITE NOW HAS COMMS? Obviously it is 2005 A.D. and he has finally found the legendary blogging site of the emos, in which there are so many comms and epic fails...!

UNFORTUNATELY... He is increasingly distracted by cats and history...! Including Neko, the famous 2000's Javascript kitty cat we all know and love within y2k and webcore fandom.

Also by his other selves.

Antonio Chandrani-Rivera's Secret Blog: Trio, Antonio, 2005 and the Neko. (Click to read.)

[04/09/2025.] A more direct "transcription." Told via Antonio Chandrani-Rivera's "secret" [Tumblr] blog.

(04/12/2025: Now with Neko dot JS added. It will have its moves, though it cycles through them slower than on a certain site.)

THE THIRD STORY ARC FOR ANTONIO CHANDRANI'S DREAM BLOG HAS GONE DOWN.

Antonio is assuming he has surprising time-jump-like access to a popular blogging site in the year 2005 A.D. despite being born 100,000 years in the future.

Or...does he? He's becoming a little worried. A little anxious. A little emo. Could it be 2025 A.D. instead? The 2025 A.D. in which the mysterious Antonio "K.-G." was unhappy, instead of very happy.

HOWEVER. Suddenly, 3 people from his era and timeline show up...!

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY HAPPEN? When two of your family and friends appear during the height of being 15 and emo?

Antonio Chandrani-Rivera's Secret Blog: Tono and Friends. Part 1. (Click to read.)

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Here's information regarding the upcoming light novel/novella that will accompany the adult epic science fantasy novel. The light novel's name is "The Protector's memory of them under the sunlight." and it will be around 150 to 200 pages long and will contain numerous illustrations!

Since this light novel will have a free-to-read black-and-white-and-grayscale illustrated version in the future, I've decided to preview partial excerpts of the first chapter.

You can find a 5-page excerpt of chapter 1 here! The full 40-page excerpt is free-to-read within that link and also linked below.

The full 40-page excerpt can be found (free-to-read) here:

ON BOOKFUNNEL.

ON ITCHIO.

Early pitches for the light novel on Twitter.

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( the places that ring )

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(lily art by pikisuperstar @ freepik. added 06/10/24.)

[04/21/2024.] Made a video of me reading a very tiny drabble set in Blue Horizon verse. It's on Youtube.

Microfictions:

[03/21/2024.] I actually have a 1000-words-ish short story written that's set in Blue Horizon already, but will wait to drop it after I have the books released for a while. As of 03/21/2024, they are unreleased.

HOWEVER... I remembered after forgetting that back in late September 2021, when I started utilizing my Writer Twitter, I created microfiction to start of my Twitter adventures there.

So here they are, with more discerning notes!

The first is about Antonio Chandrani-Rivera and Alejandro Altaha. At the time on Twitter for some reason I wanted to use aliases for the characters (I dropped that quickly); those aliases helped me come up with the first book's title though.

Antonio and Alejandro. Flash fic #001:

Pedantically, you stack bricks around the boy; build a wall all around him so high that you convince yourself you’ll be fine among those who hold you up now, the way you hold them (you always will—you always, always will).

But then you realize it.

His bloodied body is standing right behind you. His smile covered up by the blood that slips from his forehead. This phantom memory of him that will never go away immortalizes it—that day you’d failed him, and everyone.

This is from Alia [Atif-]Akinyemi's POV:

Alia [Atif]-Akinyemi POV. Flash fic #002:

You were friends, all of you. A world full of sunny adventures and rainy day explorations. Those memories that might unfold in your mind in that rare moment of quiet; might be sealed away; might never quite come back.

The threads that you all wove together have scattered you far, far apart. Across deserts and across seas. Across valleys and across a hundred cities.

But one day, you might find your way back again, simply by following their drifting path…to that place you met, high upon the hills, so very long ago.

So…

Do you want to?

This is about Antonio Chandrani-Rivera and Alejandro Altaha, and is based on the early skating-through-clouds edit I made:

Antonio and Alejandro. Flash fic #003:

When he nearly trips a bit and starts to fall and flail, despite his magic easily holding him up high above the skies, you laugh at him because it's easy to laugh around him, but he doesn't see it in such a way at all.

He sees you laugh and it's like a world of flora blooming. Through the lands and through the seas. Biennials and perennials all bloom at once in his heart of hearts, for no reason.

The days and years pass, but it stays in some way. In his actions, in the way that he looks people in the eyes.

It’s nothing he ever speaks about, but that bright moment in time might linger for a while.

Or it might linger for eras unimaginable to human memory.

The smallest of echoes, through spacetime.

The edit:

alt text: one of my first "drawings" of aletono, except the background is a photo. it's the one where they're shadowed and skating atop white clouds surrounded by a teal sky and softer gray-ish clouds above.

[click to go back up.]