Hi! My name is Cherry. I’m the girl who writes these stories, and the sole creator thereof. I live in Pittsburgh, which is most of why that’s where this series is set. There’s an adage of “write what you know”, and I strongly believe in it. It’s also something I do to learn a place, and writing this story has done a lot to help me get to know my new home since I moved here. This is typical of me; writing is often something I do to process or examine my own life experiences. There’s a lot about this story and these characters that’s directly drawing on myself and my life for inspiration.
Once you start reading, the implications of that might start to be clearer. I haven’t had a normal life, not at all. I have a number of physical and mental oddities, including neurological development that was simultaneously very advanced and very impaired; I’m autistic with strong savant patterns, exceptionally good at some tasks with a particular focus on language, developmentally impaired in other areas. I have a wide range of sensory and cognitive quirks, ranging from strong synesthesia to psychotic paranoia. A lot of these were inborn traits, the product of my own genetic oddities. Other unusual qualities are the product of what hasn’t been the best life, to put it mildly. Between the two, this story might go places that are odd, dark, or both by most people’s standards.