ARTIST STATEMENT

A PROCESS OF ELIMINATION

All fiction is lovely fiction to someone - no matter how repugnant you may find it.

My name is Namiin Stone, and I live in fantasy worlds full of strife and full of grief - but they are worlds overfull with love and longing, too. A tender ache in the space where darkness and desire coalesce into the surreal and taboo.

I am an adult artist and author with a singular story that I want to tell, time and time again: a father and his daughter caught in a romance fraught with tension, with desire, with an inescapable - and sometimes supernatural - need to be together. Proclaiming mutual, irrevocable, burning love that extends far beyond the bounds of family, flying in the face of social taboos without heed for consequences.

I choose to be brutally honest about what heals me, to be so terribly vulnerable about what brings me joy, and to be viscerally open about what arouses me, what breeds base carnality in me. You will find romance here, you will find erotica here, and you will find pornography here, but I must stress abstraction. These accounts are wholly fictional, these people are wholly fictional, and any and all similarities to any real person - living or dead - are an absolute coincidence.

If this intrigues you, then I'm glad you found me, and I hope you enjoy what I've set at the table. Sample anything you like, and leave a tip if you feel so inclined. ♥

THE STORIES I WISH TO TELL

Each of these stories is an alternative universe centering around two main characters, Ila and Idris. Ila is mine, Idris belongs to my husband and (not-quite-so) old man, Diallo. The characters are always father/daughter even when it may not seem so, and they will always have a happy ending, even when that might seem an impossibility. I write searing romance, not shocking tragedy! ;)

These stories are currently being written and plotted out, and are not available in fully finished formats. If you'd like to support me in creating them and other things, check out my support page for more information. Each story will at least be a novella in length, contain illustrated front and back covers, and interior artwork both erotic and not.

THE SUMMONING

An ancient, unfathomable Incubus with intent set on claiming the heart of the girl that summoned him. The girl that was made from him, the lover that was made for him and him alone. Ila, who thought she was abandoned since childhood, unwanted and untouchable - only to discover through loss, grief, and an inexplicable haunting that she had not been abandoned at all. She had been stolen. Far from untouchable - she was only meant to be touched by a powerful Incubus called Idris.

He needs her as much as she needs him, needs her to become his for both of them to be whole.

BLACK STAG - WHITE DOE

A band called Elk Garden vanished without a trace over twenty years ago.

Ila comes home from her third year in an out-of-state college after getting into a car accident that nearly ended her life. Idris, ever the doting dad, welcomes her home and encourages her to enroll in a local college. Her coming home coincides with Idris getting peculiar phone calls that have him working long overnight hours, despite being so close to his retirement.

At the same time, the band Elk Garden makes a local comeback, along with its larger than life masked, anonymous front man, The Black Stag. As Ila bonds with a bad boy metalhead named Ahmed she'd always liked in highschool, and tensions with her father rise at home over him, an odd turn of events leads her backstage and into the arms of the Black Stag...

THE MEANING OF GARDENIAS AND GLADIOLI

An Arab merchant and his albino daughter live in relative comfort in the French countryside, circa 1873. The merchant is approached one day by a noble, who wishes to ask on behalf of his son for the daughter's hand. The merchant, Idris, refuses. He asks again, several weeks later, and again is refused - until the noble insinuates something about Idris's past "dealings".

Idris's blood-soaked past has come to collect its due. He must marry Ila off to the son of the Viscount to save them both, but things become complicated when the girl he's certain never loved him the way he loves her kisses him with so much passion during a heated argument about her betrothal.

The two of them stall for time to plan an escape from France, and Idris's decades of experience as a lethal weapon will mean the difference between life and death.

CONTACT

If you'd like to contact me for any reason, be it to pick my brain and ask questions, discuss my work and themes, or inquire about commissions or hiring me for commercial illustration work, please send an email to [email protected].