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Amber Velez

Writer and Mechanical Engineer

I’m studying mechanics and design at MIT, writing stories, and blogging about it along the way!

  • Cherry & Chocolate

    Short story published in Drunk Monkeys Magazine, Oct 2020. Wish I were there with you. Anyway I’m gone as much as you are. The words were scribbled on a receipt which faded on the dashboard, once-black ink steadily baking brown. Sunlight poured in, casting specks from dead bugs plastered to the windshield across the brown face […]

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    May 30, 2022
  • Eresh Ashore

    Fantasy short story published in Theakers Quarterly Fiction, Issue 66, Apr 2020. Re-printed in Silver Blade Magazine, Sept 2020. The flecked reflections of the moon on the far waves looked like approaching ships. The moon was thin tonight, a silver sliver, so the fleet was smaller than usual, clustered together against the vast ocean. The waves […]

    May 30, 2022
  • Knots

       Short story published in Broken Pencil Magazine, Sept 2, 2020 You cock your head at me and ask,      “Are we too old for fairies?”      Both your hands clutch a paper coffee cup. Your sweater sleeves are pushed to your elbows, orange and pink stripes bunched up and overlapping.      “What kind of fairy?” I say. […]

    May 30, 2022
  • Aerial Lyra

    The aerial lyra, or hoop, is one of many circus props, similar to a flying trapeze. The earliest versions were first seen in the late 19th century, and lyra is commonly used in circuses today. I’ve been dancing with trapeze, lyra, and other circus props for years, and wanted to continue while studying at MIT. […]

    May 30, 2022

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