I am an anthropologist and writer working at the intersection of literary fiction, folklore, and lived experience, where stories become a way of making sense of the world.​

My stories are woven from the subtle threads of daily life, exploring the quiet surrealities where magic has consequences and culture reveals itself in kitchens, friendships, and the smallest of gestures rather than in grand speeches.​

My background in anthropology sharpens my focus on how people inhabit their stories—not just what they claim to believe, but how they move through the world, shaped by rituals, habits, and unspoken rules.

The COMC Files sits at the intersection of espionage, folklore, and everyday life, grounded in real European locations (airports, train stations, border zones) where geopolitics, migration, and memory collide. Dr. Delange’s anthropological background informs how cultures, rituals, and unspoken rules appear on the page; folklore shapes how the uncanny infiltrates.

The series uses institutional systems: visas, border checks, professional hierarchies, to create noir-style moral grey zones where magic becomes disruptive rather than escapist.

Elena is positioned deliberately as neither ingénue nor superhero, but a competent professional navigating loyalties and personal fault-lines while something older and stranger presses in from the margins.

Right now, that work lives most intensely in The COMC Files – a seven‑book European myth/noir saga following a midlife heroine through airports, borderlands and political shadows. The series is being developed first as novels, with an eye toward adult, serialised animation.

Thematic & Technical Architecture

The COMC Files incorporates quantum mechanics as both metaphor and mechanism for how memory, consciousness, and divine identity operate across timelines and incarnations. Geopolitics isn’t backdrop but active force—the series engages directly with international law, migration systems, intelligence networks, and how institutional power shapes individual agency. Sex is written as integrated aspect of character psychology and power dynamics, not gratuitous or sanitized.

Chaos magic operates on anthropological logic where magical workings produce permanent physical consequences to the practitioner’s body and biology. Quantum mechanics functions as the system governing how divine recognition collapses mythic identity into present consciousness (observer effect), and how consuming sacred substances enables temporal displacement—divine intervention that breaks causality through physics rather than faith.

The books treat these elements as mutually reinforcing: quantum uncertainty determines how prophecy and reincarnation work, geopolitical pressure creates conditions where chaos magic becomes survival tool, sex reveals character truth that political maneuvering conceals, and mythic time operates by physics rules that make linear causality negotiable.

If you’re curious about the project or exploring new IP for adaptation, you’ll find more on The COMC Files and on my background as founder of CYcrds elsewhere on this site.

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