Levi Katz

short stories, novel excerpts, poems, and essays.

Read My Work

  • The World For Us

    I knew no names, nor the purpose of naming what I felt. Feeling, sensing, was both everything and nothing. Was it feeling or sensing or knowing? So many names, none of them true. In knowing, I lost truth. read more

    15–22 minutes

  • My First Post!

    I have chosen to believe, desperately, in myself. Writing has always been the throughline of my life, my only way of existing, the thing that I have claimed for my passion and purpose… read more

    1–2 minutes

  • i saw joan of arc in portland

    when they took your body down, it was smeared black on the palms… read more

    1–2 minutes

  • The Sky and the Sea

    Often I would go to the edge to stare down at the sawtooth rocks below, but from the distance of our palace the view was beautiful and serene: a broad, blue tapestry spread across the surface of the world… read more

    21–32 minutes

  • Moses in the Desert

    For forty years, Moses, Aaron, and Miriam wandered the vast, rolling dunes of the Sinai desert. Behind them thronged a long line of Hebrews, their people, haggard and rushed, with doughy, pale circles of unleavened bread shining like full moons atop their sun-baked backs.  read more

    7–10 minutes

Welcome to my website! My name is Levi and I am a fantasy writer based out of Portland, Oregon. I have a passion for the imaginative and absurd. My stories are about adventure, mundanity, magic, nature, heroes, monsters, the past, the future, and love. I am deeply touched by your interest in them. Thanks for stopping by.