Preface

Hello Holohaus magazine. It’s been five months since I started writing ‘Moonlight Cantata’ at an unsustainable pace for November Novel Writing Month on webnovel site Royal Road. I didn’t expect it to get a small but dedicated cult following, and was soon surprised by people clamoring for more, by fanart, and by encouraging comments of people who could relate to what I was writing. A sort of ‘Shonencore’ story, I intended to blend old YA stuff I’m nostalgic for, Shonen Jump tropes and my own deep-seated feeling of alienation, of being a cuckoo bird who tricked my parents into raising me by adopting human skin.

Writing two thousand words every day proved unmanageable though, and I eventually burned out. Andata Express approached me and asked if I wanted to continue Moonlight in their magazine, and so here we are. This and the next issue of Holohaus will be reposting existing chapters of Moonlight Cantata, though this time at least somewhat spell-checked and edited. In the meanwhile I’ll be writing new chapters at a much more reasonable pace, to be posted in later editions of Holohaus.

Since Moonlight Cantata is about everyone who feels like they don’t belong, like they deserve better and deep down still dream of being special, consider all concepts, names and other aspects of the setting to be Public Domain. I dream of a world where we changelings freely trade stories in a sort of shared mythology, a new kind of culture that anyone can add to as they like.