Ambrose Fiction

My Name is John, and I Tell Stories

What is Storytelling?

Storytelling can be a reprieve, a sanctuary, a pedestal, a banner, the thing you can hold on tight to and push forward. Some days, it’s my whole life, the perfect craft that ever changes. Other days, it’s just a small daydream that helps me get through a long shift at work. Storytelling can keep our loved ones close in our memory even when they’ve left us. It can help us learn to love people we’ve never met, and it can help us believe in a better tomorrow, even if it’s hard to see sometimes.

Because of that, I make these! Scenes and tales about fantastical somethings. I love building worlds, I love creating characters and letting them explore the worlds I’ve built, letting them change it and themselves as it fits. I’m going to keep making these fantastical somethings for as long as I want to tell stories, for as long as I have exciting ideas in my mind that I can’t put anywhere else.

“Fairy Tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated.” – G. K. Chesterton

Stories and Projects

  • By The Lamplight

    “Deep in the sprawling hills of Appalachia, lay a vast cemetery. A very large, very lonely cemetery.”

  • The Crystal Hare

    “The Prismatic glow was gorgeous, making the textbook images at the library look like children’s drawings.

  • The Flying Circus

    “Heavy hung the clouds of soot, far below the feet of The Flying Circus.”

  • A Glass of Calvados

    “Your dejection blinds you to opportunity.”