Maren Detlefs (they/them) is a Boston-based writer and audio engineer. Working predominantly with queer climate fiction, fantasy, and mystery, their upbringing in Santa Cruz, CA, informs the themes of environmentalism in their work. Their short fiction most recently appeared in Club Chicxulub. Maren received their BFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. When they are not writing, you can find them drinking tea and watching the Lord of the Rings with their dachshund, Peanut.
LATEST RELEASE
Welcome to the Gallery, an ever-changing labyrinth of lust and mystery, where every hour, partygoers don a new identity, whether they want to or not.
A mashup of Poe's "Masque of the Red Death," Dante's Inferno, Labyrinth, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, "Devil's in the Details" is a surreal fantasy story is now available in Club Chicxulub Vol 5, Pandæmonium. Also featuring an audio edition with an original fabulist synthwave score.
GROWING HOME
In an irreparably polluted world, civilization was on the brink of collapse. When the apocalypse finally came in the form of behemoth trees that destroyed the infrastructure, but cleared the air, it was called the Rejuvenation.
Marlow, a former programmer, was fine surviving on his own. But when a young girl in need of protection that he can’t provide and a charismatic artist on the run from his former community stumble into his life, he’s forced to reassess the detachment he’s so carefully cultivated.
Against a dominating background of fantastical woods born from the corpses of humanity, Marlow must reckon with questions of faith and love as he asks himself, how much can he dare to hope for in a ruined world?