Hayden Moore is a writer of Fantasy and Literary Fiction living in New York City.
SKY TRACER (The Fungal Realm): Audiobook, narrated by the author, launched on March 15, 2024! Available on Audible, iTunes and Amazon.
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In the eternal darkness of the Fungal Realm of Ūmfalla, two women from different worlds form an unlikely bond and use their newfound powers to try and topple an empire.
In Ümfalla, only those with dark-bright eyes can see the way. A Wanderer with a forgotten past and a mechanical-arm named, MĒNA, is one of those few. When she rescues a woman named, RUTHY, who has fallen from Sky Tracer—an abysmal machine that transports stolen children over the dark land to be sacrificed—she is thrust into a fight against the warrior Reapers and magical Weirs for the very existence of the realm. The world-tree of the sunlit realm of Avernus looms large over the Spore Cloud that shrouds Ümfalla in eternal darkness. Through secrets and deception, RUTHY reveals that she is actually ARETHŪSA, the new Ruler of Avernus who can speak through the mycelium beneath the earth and directly to the Goddess who sleeps within the world-tree.
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‘In the gloom of the Fungal Realm, only dark-bright eyes can see the way…
Hayden Moore was born and raised in Georgia. He studied at the University of Tennessee and has lived in New York City for the past sixteen years. His debut novel, SKY TRACER (The Fungal Realm) was released on February 17, 2023. He has been published fifty times for his short stories, including publications such as: Corner Bar Magazine, Metonym Literary Journal, Drunk Monkey Literary Journal, Fictional Cafe, Modern Literature, Calliope, Wood Coin Magazine, Wink Magazine, Verdad Magazine, Wilderness House Literary, Blue Moon Literary and Art Review, Deep Overstock Journal, Wild Roof Journal, Oddville Press, Dream Noir, The Scriblerus, Prachya Review, JOHAHmagazine, La Piccioletta Barca, Quail Bell, The Green Light, Astral Waters, Literary Heist, Pif Magazine, Flatbush Review, Wingless Dreamer, Anaphora Literary Press, SAC, Gone Lawn, Flying Ketchup Press, Pour Vida, The Closed Eye Open, Fudoki Magazine, Scarlet Leaf Review, High Shelf Press, NYSAI Press, Two Thirds North, Black Horse Review, Gypsum Sound Tales, Brief Wilderness, Cardinal Sins, Internet Void and Sincerely Magazine. He lives with his wife, dragon, fox and looming spirit of his cat, on the waters of Jamaica Bay in Queens, NY.
Link to Author’s Medium Page: Top Writer in the categories of: Writing, Fantasy, Essay, Creative Process, Prose
Recent published works
2019 – Current
Birdsong (Metonym is a print only publication)
Woven Past
Brink of Silence
A Thousand Harvests
Head of Leaves
Link to Author’s Readings on Soundcloud (Creative Non-fiction Essays): Here
Author’s Reading for The Heptagon: Thanks to Brief Wilderness and their Podcast (Episode 1)
Author’s Reading for Winged-Back: Thanks again to Brief Wilderness and their Podcast (Episode 4)
Current projects
2024
My full-length novel, SKY TRACER, hit shelves on February 17, 2023. It’s a work of Epic Fantasy and explores identity, power, fungi and complex problems in regards to the environment. SKY TRACER contains a unique biome where darkness is not synonymous with evil and a cloudless sky is feared, rather than wished for. SKY TRACER is the first in a series.
What I’m reading
2024 and prior
From the time I could manage to understand every third word of the text, Shakespeare has been my foundation. The moods of the season tend to draw me to one play or another, but a handful of my favorites include: Henry IV Part One, As You Like It, King Lear and The Winter’s Tale. Jorge Luis Borges and his short stories have had a heavy influence on my writing, while Ludwig Wittgenstein tends to be the philosopher I return to as a writer, again and again. As far as my current reading, give me a book on physics, clouds, trees, dirt, wind, potatoes, or anything that takes me out of the human chaos of the world and I’ll devour it. Non-fiction books are the soil for the seeds of my ideas to grow. However, there are contemporary writers of Sci-fi/Fantasy I do read: N.K. Jemisin, Marlon James, Ursula K. Le Guin, Philip K. Dick, Octavia E. Butler, to name a handful. Most of the fiction I’ve read throughout my life was written by someone who has been long dead: Virginia Woolf, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Bertholt Brecht, Franz Kafka, Joseph Conrad, Samuel Beckett, J.R.R. Tolkien, George Orwell, Vladimir Nabokov, Anton Chekhov, The Brontë’s…
Marginalia:
Hayden Moore is member #29,346 of The Cloud Appreciation Society, formed by Gavin Pretor-Pinney.
Rockaway Bagels has the second-best bagels in New York.
Starling calls make excellent sound samples for post-modern ray-gun sound effects.
Hawks look like dragons on the horizon at dusk…
Spiders are a divisive topic.
Music to write by…
Mogwai
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
Red Sparowes
God is an Astronaut
Radiohead: Hail to the Thief
Russian Circles
Beethoven’s Ninth (Leonard Bernstein’s Conducting)
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov’s, Sheherezade
Final Fantasy VII Soundtrack