Haven Lopaz | Editing

What Gets Recorded Why I Write About Systems, Surviival and the Words We Choose

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I keep returning to the same question in my writing:

What gets recorded and who decides?

Institutions preserve official language. Survival stories live in the margins.

My newest Quiet Archive essay explores systems, survival, and the words we choose.

#WritingCommunity #AmWriting

Letter from the Threshold – A Fantasy Short Story by Haven Lopaz – Reedsy Prompts To Ardan, I came back. I told myself I never would. I said it like a rule instead of a fear, as if speaking it aloud might turn it into law. You wo...

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My Reedsy story, Letter from the Threshold, is now live.

It’s about returning to the place that broke you and leaving without carrying it anymore.

If you read it, I’d love to know what line stayed with you.
#ShortStory #amwriting #writers

I submitted two short stories today: Reedsy Prompt and Writers & Artists 📝

There’s something unsettling about letting a story leave your hands.

Do you feel relief after submitting?

Do you prefer writing for prompts or open themes? What pushes you more?

#amwriting #ShortStory #Writers

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"A Heart in Pieces" is about Jess Harper, a junior at Longview University. One night while Jess is walking home from her audition for the school play, she finds a dead body. Which of the ten-thousand students at Longview is turning members of the student body into corpses? #Miserypit #A #Q #CT #RT

A search for a missing girl turns into something more sinister when a journalist is caught up in a terrorist attack. Implicated and with no choice but to go on the run, Kit seeks sanctuary with the terrorists, unable to return home until proven innocent

#MiseryPit #NA #SFFT #Q

Black background Top left picture is of the fence and two buildings in Auschwitz. The top right is of an Auschwitz building with fall dead trees in front of it. Then in white font with teal edging it says the title The Girl Within. The middle left picture us a tank in a field. The middle right is the front of a large boat and a smaller boat on water. Then there's a quote that says "I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take side." - Elle Wiesel The bottom left picture is a blonde girl in a brown jacket and a black press vest that says press in white. She's standing in front of a tall brown building with lots of windows. The bottom right pic is a crowd of protesters in front of a building.

The Last Year of the War x Team Yankee x The Plum Tree

When World War 3 breaks out Sadie, a college journalism student, finds herself thrown into a camp on American soil. Can she survive the horrors that permeate the camp or will she succumb to the darkness?

#W #NA #CT #MiseryPit

This is interesting!

DONT LET THE FOREST IN x TOGETHER WE ROT

A botany student haunted by the whispering woods searches for the missing boy who vanished from his kegger as a siren lures him and his friends into the water in this dark re-imagining of Morgan Le Fay.

#miserypit #Q #YA #T

I love the graphics! It's unsettling yet soothing

Love the aesthetic! It looks eerie and a little tragic

black and white Cityscape. Title white over red: Mandate for Leadership Subtitle white on black: A collection of short stories based around political horror Text black on white: Mandate for Leadership is a 43000 word anthology of 11 interconnected short stories exploring the chilling consequences of policy gone wrong

Upper Image: The cover for the novel #murdertrending featuring a line of 5 people simply drawn. The middle person has been beheaded. Lower Image: A cracked screen with a smiley face cracked into the glass in the middle and the words Black Mirror

upper image is a 3 stack featuring a cartoon render of a bureaucrat and image of a clothed pregnant belly and something that appears to be a decrepit dorm. lower image: A deserted classroom

#writingcommunity #Q #A #H #DT #MiseryPit

Mandate for Leadership: a collection of 11 short stories totaling 43,000 words that are all focused on the horrific possibilities inherent in the Project 2025 playbook the Heritage Foundation put together for the next administration.

COMPs: Black Mirror

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Home was the system that broke them. Years later, the people who built it are forced back together—not to fix what went wrong, but to decide who they’re willing to become now.

CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS x SOME DESPERATE GLORY.

#A #CT #WIP #MiseryPit

She built a system to stabilize trauma. It rewrote people instead. A surgeon returns to the blacksite she fled, knowing the only way to stop it is to dismantle what she made—and accept what can never be undone.

CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS x SOME DESPERATE GLORY.

#A #CT #WIP #MiseryPit #AmEditing

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A 📝 of my #MiseryPit posts for THE SURGEON OF SILENCE 🩺, a 98k Speculative Thriller Fiction (currently editing).

The Miles Between Us, which features:
✅ a crime story with deep emotional resonance;
✅ an exploration of themes like grief, racism & identity;
✅ ordinary citizens stepping into investigative roles;
✅ MCs who seem worlds apart, and are yet so similar;
✅ a romantic subplot.
#miserypit #A #WIP #CT #CM

#MiseryPit #A #PSYT #WIP
Don't Hide from Me

Thirty-four-year-old, Emma Gelberbaum lives a carefully curated, isolated life in a smart home she designed herself—cameras, locks, voice assistants—all under her control. Or so she thinks...
Deep down, she fears someone might be looking for her...

Top left photo is people camping in an open area by hills and a waterfall with the title in orange We Were Students. Below that is 10 jets flying in a v formation in the sky. Then a quote with a white background and orange lettering “In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.” - Martin Luther King Jr. Below are people on a trip type bus with a quote, “In war everyone loses. This brutal truth can be seen in the eyes of every soldier of every world.” - Steven Erikson, Dust of Dreams. Top right photo: a group of students high school age in front of a school from behind. Below that are people camping in a forest. Below that with a river running over rocks background is a quote, “War doesn't determine who's right, war determines who remains.” R.F. Kuang. Then at the bottom is 3 pans cooking food over a fire on a grate.

Black background Top left picture is of the fence and two buildings in Auschwitz. The top right is of an Auschwitz building with fall dead trees in front of it. Then in white font with teal edging it says the title The Girl Within. The middle left picture us a tank in a field. The middle right is the front of a large boat and a smaller boat on water. Then there's a quote that says "I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take side." - Elle Wiesel The bottom left picture is a blonde girl in a brown jacket and a black press vest that says press in white. She's standing in front of a tall brown building with lots of windows. The bottom right pic is a crowd of protesters in front of a building.

Here's my list for #MiseryPit

1. We Were Students #W #YA #CT
2. The Girl Within #W #NA #CT

Feedback is welcome.

#FDT #FICE #StandUp #Writingispolitical

I am currently editing (developmental), so I am just hoping I could finish halfway through it...

I also have 2 other WIPs that's just sitting there patiently waiting soo 😅

Added, and appreciate it for the advise!

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She built a system meant to heal. It kept running after she left—and learned how to hurt. When a blacksite reactivates, a trauma surgeon returns to dismantle it, forcing everyone involved to reckon with what survival cost them.

CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS x SOME DESPERATE GLORY.

#A #CT #WIP #MiseryPit

Anyone willing to swap support for #MiseryPit? Comment and I will add you to my list!

Also, it would be my first time. Any tips?