Fiction published with intention.
LOCPress publishes works of fiction that explore systems,
identity, and choice. Some stories contain heavy themes.
Readers are invited to choose what and how they read.
The Silver Line coming soon.
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The Silver Line
Silver Lockhart didn’t disappear – she escaped. After years inside a closed, brutal system that trained her to survive at any cost, Silver surfaces in Saint Lake, a quiet coastal town in Maine, determined to live unnoticed. She builds a security consulting business, rents a room in a modern house at the edge of the woods, […]
Process, practice, and perspective
From the workshop
An Administrative Matter
Celeste kept two calendars because trusting one system to behave like it had sense was how people ruined their mornings. The first lived on her monitor, color-coded and capable of issuing reminders she ignored with professional consistency. The second was printed, annotated, and currently spread across the left side of her desk beneath a yellow […]
Hi, I’m Elena.
Hi, I’m Elena I write stories. I also run LOCPress, which is where I publish them. That includes short stories, serialized fiction, poetry, experiments, and anything else that needs somewhere to live. Some of it is edited by professionals. Most of it is not. LOCPress isn’t a publishing company, and I’m not trying to make […]
Reader choice
Read with the information you need.
LOCPress stories may include violence, trauma, coercion, addiction, and other heavy subjects. Content information is available so readers can decide what, when, and how they wish to read.