Visions to Words is not a series in the traditional sense, but a collection of stand-alone short stories in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, myths reimagined, and visionary tales. Each story is complete in itself, and inspired by the author’s original artworks which explore the threshold between reality and unreality. Although these stories are connected by a shared aesthetic, each book can be read independently. Readers are invited to dip into the collection wherever they choose, discovering stories of angels, aliens, myths, archetypes, and transformations, each with their own voice and vision.
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The Watchers: A Story of First Contact
When the Watchers arrive, there is no fire in the sky, no sound of engines. There is only stillness. Streets, forests, and oceans fall silent as faces vast enough to hold entire continents gaze down on a world that does not yet understand it is being rewritten. Through the Appointed Ones, the Watchers map every thought, memory, and story humanity has ever told itself. They give the gift of visions of possible futures, ideas that will one day be seen as genius, and solutions that will shape our future. But in return, they will take our history.
Riverborn: A Mythic Journey of Memory and Becoming
A lyrical tale of transformation and purpose, where water remembers every life it carries and one creature emerges in many forms to heal, reckon, and become. The river does more than flow. It remembers. From its hidden depths, a creature rises again and again, each time in a new form: bird, warrior, healer, winged being of light. With every emergence, they listen, feel, and mend wounds left by careless hands. But this journey is not about power. It’s about purpose. Each form carries unease, each act carries consequence, and each return to the water draws the creature closer to understanding who they truly are. Lyrical, mythic, and unsettling, Riverborn is both a fable and a meditation: on memory, transformation, and the quiet guardianship of a world in need.
Medusa: The Untold Story
In this bold reimagining of Greek myth, Medusa rises not as a cursed victim, but as a visionary builder, leader, and mother. From her humble beginnings as a poor sand-sweeper in a desert outpost, she is transformed by otherworldly beings who gift her the power to shape stone and water with resonance. With this gift, she creates a thriving community and births two miraculous children: Pegasus, the winged horse, and Aetherion, a luminous child of light. But power invites envy. Rival ‘gods’ interfere, whispers grow within her people, and Perseus betrays Medusa. When she finally turns him to stone, her justice is undeniable. Yet history twists the truth, and future storytellers will brand her a monster. This story reclaims her voice.
Nico and the Angel: Reflections From a City of Glass
A celebrated luxury architect in a city built of glass, he designs towers and estates for the ultra-rich, convinced his work will outlast empires. Clients frustrate him, colleagues disappoint him, and lovers never measure up. The problem, Nico insists, is always someone else. On a solitary walk, he meets Sam, an androgynous angel with a layered, unsettling voice and a mischievous smile. Sam promises to help Nico fix the flawed people in his life. But each dazzling intervention involving his lover Ava, his protégé Ethan, and his brother Daniel reflects back truths Nico refuses to see. As denial hardens and the angel’s games grow sharper, Nico is left in silence, facing only himself. What begins as satire becomes a story of shadows: a man caught between shatter and clarity, learning that true transformation is neither dramatic nor clean, but a crack that lets in new light.
The Ledger’s Due: Debts From the Underworld
Damien is a Collector, a demon who takes what the Ledger is owed. Today’s mark is Theo Anathos, an alpha werewolf holding court at a glittering Perth fundraiser where the air smells of money and chilled intent. The rules should be simple: enter, poison, depart. But the Pact of Thresholds is watching, and so is an Auditor. When a woman in a black dress arrives with the scent of iron-lily on her skin, and her reflection arrives without delay, the hunt changes shape. Clause Nine is invoked. Consent, marks, and boundaries become law, and the predator finds himself outsmarted by the very system he serves.
Night and Day: The Story of Erebus and Hemera
When trauma surgeon Erebus takes charge of an unconscious woman brought in at dawn, he doesn’t expect to feel gravity itself shift. Her name is Hemera, and she’s no ordinary victim. She’s a contract killer, bound to shadow and silence, now trapped in the sterile glow of his intensive care unit. An innocent bystander named Twilight had brought the woman to hospital, unaware he had bridged two worlds that were never meant to collide. As Hemera recovers under Erebus’s care, an impossible attraction begins to blur the edges of day and night. Clocks slip at dusk, corridors lengthen, and the city itself seems to hold its breath. If day and night ever touch, the cosmic balance may shatter. But how long can they resist the moment when everything bends toward a forbidden embrace?
The Red Dress: A Magical Journey Between Worlds
Marina thinks she is bored. Day after day she sits on the same park bench, listless and untethered, until one afternoon a strange red glow at the base of a tree reminds her of a dress she has never worn. It belonged to her deceased twin sister who wore it with grace. When Marina slips into the red dress, her world unravels. The dress becomes a talisman, carrying her across continents and landscapes: to the streets of Paris, the silence of Uluru, and the grandeur of Istanbul. Each journey is a postcard of magic, guiding her to rediscover joy, confront memory, and finally face what she has avoided: her grief.
Miranda the Grey: A Lyrical Tale of Giving to the Mist
Miranda’s world has turned pale: colors are drained, sounds are dulled, she moves through days that no longer follow the rhythm of the living. Yet within that silence, something begins to stir: memory, nature, and the faint hum of connection calling her back toward life. As she wrestles with the pull between remembering and forgetting, Miranda learns that nature’s indifference is not cruelty but a kind of mercy. The mist of Loch Ard in Scotland teaches her what the mind resists: that surrender is not defeat. In time, even unbearable sorrow can soften.
Gaia and Apollo: When Light Became a Weapon
In the beginning, Gaia emerged from Chaos as a vast, fertile, and eternal deity. Her vapors rose from a sacred hollow beneath Mount Parnassus, offering visions and prophecy to mortals. And from Gaia’s body came children both wondrous and terrible: Titans, Cyclopes, and the Hecatoncheires. Among her most sacred was Python; a giant serpent-guardian of the sacred hollow from which her vapors rose. But when Gaia’s golden grandson, Apollo, is born with radiant clarity, the old order trembles. While Gaia cherishes mystery, Apollo demands purity. Where she values shadow, he seeks light. And when he turns his bow against Python, Gaia must watch the murder of her child at the hand of the grandson she both adores and fears.
The Abduction of Persephone: The Untold Story
When Persephone steps willingly into the Underworld, she shatters the silence of eternity and awakens something Hades had thought was long dead: desire. Their union unravels the order of both realms. Rivers shift, the Furies whisper, the Shades stop to stare, and Demeter’s grief threatens to end the living world. Yet amid ruin and renewal, Persephone and Hades discover that love itself is the bridge between life and death.
The Lumenkin: A Story of Alien Arrival and Ecological Awakening
When strange green lights descend through the aurora, Lirien feels their arrival before she understands what they are. Crystalline visitors drift into her forest, weave themselves through its ancient mycelial networks, and awaken something that has been lying dormant beneath the roots. While her kin retreat from the unknown, Lirien moves closer. The forest begins to change. Trees glow. Fungi emerge out of season. Animals watch with luminous eyes. The boundary between the fae and human realms begins to thin. And, day by day, Lirien’s own body transforms as something ancient, earthly and utterly alien learns how to live through her.
If you enjoy reading fun, imaginative fiction, you may wish to subscribe to the author’s ‘Weird Worlds’ newsletter. It will arrive in your mailbox about once every 4-6 weeks, and only when she has a new bundle to goodies to offer you. With complex characters and settings, her stories range from altered realities, ancient myths, alien contact, ecological magic, urban fantasy, dystopian futures and fiction born from original artwork. If that floats your boat, subscribe here.
Mythic Retellings: Three Stories of Power, Shadow and Becoming
In this collection of three atmospheric stories, V.M. Andrews reimagines figures and forces from Greek mythology through a lens of transformation, choice, beauty and consequence. These stories are part of the Visions to Words collection: a series of short speculative works inspired by the author’s original digital artworks. They have been brought together because they share a mythic root system: ancient powers, shadowed choices, altered destinies, and familiar figures seen from a different angle. If you enjoy lyrical, speculative and emotionally charged stories inspired by Greek mythology, powerful women, ancient gods, shadowed choices and stories that ask what might happen if the forgotten voices of myth were allowed to speak, this bundle is for you!
Includes:
Medusa: The Untold Story
Gaia & Apollo: When Light Became a Weapon
Night and Day: The Story of Erebus and Hemera
The River, the Red Dress and the Mist
In this collection of three lyrical, atmospheric stories, V.M. Andrews brings together tales of nature, grief, wonder and renewal. Each story begins in the ordinary world then reality softens, shifts and opens into something stranger. Brought together here for the first time, The River, the Red Dress and the Mist explores the strange places where grief meets wonder, where nature becomes conscious, and where loss may become not an ending, but a threshold.
Includes:
Riverborn: A Magical Journey of Memory and Becoming
The Red Dress: A Magical Journey Between Worlds
Miranda the Grey: A Lyrical Tale of Giving to the Mist
If you enjoy reading fun, imaginative fiction, you may wish to subscribe to the author’s ‘Weird Worlds’ newsletter. It will arrive in your mailbox about once every 4-6 weeks, and only when she has a new bundle to goodies to offer you. With complex characters and settings, her stories range from altered realities, ancient myths, alien contact, ecological magic, urban fantasy, dystopian futures and fiction born from original artwork. If that floats your boat, subscribe here.