Madison Rye Progress

Hello! I am a software engineer and author living in the Pacific Northwest. I spend a lot of my free time writing and working on writing tech. You can find more of my writing over on makyo.ink. If you're looking to get in touch, I got you covered.

Currently working on...

• Lagrange Substations (repo) — a fork of the game Space Station 14 set in the Post-Self universe with its own play modes and evolving mechanics.

Other projects

• gogogogogram — a simple picross-style game written for the terminal to learn more about the TUI library BubbleTea, based off of nonononogram.
• Gogol — an exploration in algorithms in Go, using Conway's Game of Life as a basis.
• Stimmtausch (repo) — A MUCK client designed around the concept of Everything Is A Writer. It relies on named pipes for managing connections, allowing you to chat with vim.
• Polycul.es (repo) — A tool for using force directed graphs to visualize polyamorous relationship structures.

Publications

• Coming Out in Tech — A short article for The New Stack.
• Centerpiece — A short story in the anthology Knotted II.
• The Dogs Assure Me — A poem in the anthology Civilized Beasts 2016.
• Gender: Furry — An essay in the anthology Furries Among Us 2.
• Arcana: A Tarot Anthology — An anthology of diverse furry fiction surrounding the major arcana of the tarot deck (edited; one short story).
• Tracking an Anthology and Layout and Design — Two articles for the anthology Paw to Print.
• Clade — A Post-Self Anthology — An anthology of short stories set in the Post-Self universe (edited; one short story)
• Ask. — An Odist Q&A — An anthology of short- and micro-fiction taking the form of questions and answers with the members of the Ode clade.

Books

• Rum and Coke — Three short stories from a furry convention.
• Restless Town — Ten short stories set in the fictional town of Sawtooth, ID or Sad Queer Animals In A Flyover State.
• A Wildness of the Heart — A novella and five short stories from Sawtooth, ID.
• Eigengrau — Poetry 2015-2020.
• ally — An ergodic, semiautobiographical typesetting adventure. It even has a making of.
• The Post-Self cycle:
  1. Qoheleth + Gallery Exhibition — A meta-furry, gender-weird novel set in the upcoming centuries. Book 1 in the Post-Self cycle
  2. Toledot — Book 2 in the Post-Self cycle.
  3. Nevi'im — Book 3 in the Post-Self cycle.
  4. Mitzvot + Selected Letters - Book 4 in the Post-Self cycle.
• Marsh — A novel in the Post-Self universe focusing on dealing with a disaster.
• Motes Played — A novella in the Post-Self universe focusing on reclaiming memories of childhood.
• Idumea — A fairytale novel(la) set in the Post-Self universe exploring mental health.