Levi Katz

short stories, novel excerpts, poems, and essays.

Read My Work
  • Of the Clay

    The sages claim that all truth can be found within what already exists; what, already, has been written. A current of knowledge flows out from the pulsebeat of the divine, given to the world in the tiny, breakable shape of words. Words, like knowledge, like truth, give life. The word truth itself gave life to… read more

    21–32 minutes




  • 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.