Hello! I'm Rae, a writer, editor, and artist in Indianapolis.
Featured & Recent Writing:
- April 2024: A guest blog post for Elevate Design Co.: “Art and the Church: Bringing Beauty and Hope”
- Jan 2023: A new publication on Substack, Letters from Rae Botsford End. Read and subscribe at raebotsfordend.substack.com.
- 10 Sept 2022: An essay on Geeks Under Grace: “The Gift of Death: The Good Place, Star Trek: Picard, The Silmarillion, and the Holy Bible,” in which I bring up a media trend that tries to solve the meaning of life and the meaning of death with one another, and talk about what’s wrong with that philosophy from a biblical perspective.
Currently working on:
- One short story in the “Ba’byl” universe
- One speculative fiction novel
- Editing a client’s science fiction novel
- Editing a short story I wrote for a contest in 2018
Ba'byl is a short story about a thief...
“Ba’byl” is a short story about a thief who journeys to a failing city and asks the queen why she built it to begin with. It’s a story about what we value.
Why do we value what we can’t have?
Read the whole short story on Amazon now! You can read it with Kindle, including the free Kindle app for iOS and Android, and Amazon Cloud Reader in your regular browser on your desktop or laptop computer.
(It’s a good lunchtime read.)