Tongue of Fire

A meditation on exile, drones, and delayed mercy—linking ancient scripture to modern survival, displacement, and the cost of waiting.

A prince steps into the heat of forced labor, asking why bodies limp and bleed. Dust watches him with a worker’s clarity: he can leave the furnace; they cannot. Heat reveals the cost of asking questions in a world built to silence them.

Chapter 8, “Salt and Spin,” returns to a story we think we know and looks closer. Dust steps into the moment where a mother’s courage was misread as disobedience, revealing the truth hidden beneath the old narrative. This chapter reframes what really happened—and why it matters.

In The Tower, Dust begins to take human form and steps into the story she’s been watching unfold. As humanity reaches upward, building monuments to its own ambition, the foundations begin to crack. This chapter marks the moment when creation forgets its source—and Dust learns what it means to be both matter and memory.

In Remembered by Dust: Blood Offering, love, faith, and fear blur together on the mountain. Through Dust’s eyes, we revisit the story of sacrifice and obedience—and begin to ask what it means to lay the knife down and choose love instead.

Chapter 1 of Remembered by Dust begins where all stories begin — with breath. Part memoir, part myth, and part midrash, this hybrid novel in verse reimagines creation as a stirring, a whisper, a beat, and a glow. Join Meridith Byrne as she claims her place in the universe — and the universe’s place within her.