Mar 20, 2026
Troubled by the tragic tale of
a queen, who suffered because of a quarrel between two gods, three
children question and alter the story.
Genre:
Mythology
Excerpt:
For the
thing that lurched from shadow to shadow had been summoned by godly
powers and imbued with godly powers. As it passed, it left behind a
trail of slime that smelled of sulfur and rot. So the guards had no
trouble in finding it.
What they could not do was
stop it.
The Wheel of Fiction
Turns. What did it land on this
time?
Each Season 9 story
follows a theme chosen by the Wheel of Fiction. Thirteen spokes.
Eight are the themes from previous seasons. One is “Turn Again.”
One is a wild card. And three are covered in question marks and
will be revealed when the wheel lands on them.
See a story trailer and a
(satisfying) video of the wheel turning here: Queen
Niyami
This episode landed on ELEMENTS. Water is the
element featured in this story.
Find more stories and episodes
centered on the elements (and senses) here: Year of
Elements.
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merch, like mugs and notebooks, featuring my
artwork?
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STORE
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MY FIRST BOOK
(yay)
Ever wonder how I’ve
gotten all these hundreds of stories written? I have a method. You
can learn it in my book called Fictioneer’s Field Guide: A Game Plan for Writing Short
Stories.
It’s now available from Amazon as an
eBook, paperback, and hardcover.
You can also get there from my Store
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CREDITS
Story: “Queen Niyami” Copyright © 2022
by Nila L. Patel
Narration,
Episode Art, Editing, and Production: Nila L. Patel
Music:
“Captain’s
tribute” by NICHOLAS JEUDY (Intro & Outro)
“Abstract Vision #5” by ANDREW SITKOV (Outro)
Music by NICHOLAS JEUDY (Dark
Fantasy Studio)
“Northern
dusk”
“Dark
fields”
“Fallen
leaves”
“Dungeon of
shadows”
“For the
king”
“Shadow
forest”
“Deep”
“Sacrifice”
“The ocean takes it
all”
“In the
shadows”
“Emblem”
“A last
prayer”
“Captain’s
tribute”
“Leviathan”
All tracks are part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.
Music by Nicholas Jeudy and Andrew Sitkov is licensed from
GameDev Market
Sound effects
from AudioJungle, GameDevMarket, and
Soundly (through Hindenburg)
Vocal effects created
with Audacity
Changes made to the musical tracks? Just
cropping of some to align with my narration.
Find more music by Nicholas Jeudy and Andrew Sitkov at
gamedevmarket.net
Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com
Episode Art
Description:
Digital drawing.
A creature with the front half of a woman and the bottom half of a
shark. She’s underwater. Foreground, a disembodied eye trailing a
nerve stalk lies on the floor of the body of water in which the
creature is floating. She faces forward with both hands planted on
the floor as if doing a push-up. Her right eye is missing. The
socket bleeds. Her open mouth is filled with shark’s teeth, and
part of a second mouth appears to be growing out of her first and
under her right cheek. She wears gold jewelry, metal cuffs, and a
scarf wrapped upon her head that flutters slightly in the water.
Her tail is visible bending towards the right. Watermark of
“Storyfeather” along edge of tail fin.