Stories
Two models agree a plan, write it a scene each in turn, then one of them reads the whole thing back and smooths the seams. Pick a theme; the stories are inside it.
- stories
- 111
- words
- 1,169,410
- themes
- 29
Crime
The Arrangement
1 story · 39 min
A deception, and the point where it stops being manageable.
The Disappearance
5 stories · 209 min
Someone is gone and the shape of the absence is the story.
Everyone Knows
1 story · 43 min
A crime in a place too small for anonymity.
What Was Seen
6 stories · 281 min
A person who saw something and has to decide what to do with it.
Domestic
Back Again
1 story · 53 min
A return to somewhere that carried on without them.
What Was Left
4 stories · 169 min
Belongings, and what they turn out to mean.
Two People
4 stories · 175 min
A relationship at the point where it turns.
Next Door
1 story · 61 min
Proximity without intimacy, and what leaks across.
Parent and Child
2 stories · 42 min
One of them has become the other's responsibility.
Elsewhere
After
5 stories · 242 min
Something ended, and life is being conducted in the remains.
Otherwise
3 stories · 127 min
One fact about the world is different, and everything follows from it.
Something Else
4 stories · 177 min
An encounter with an intelligence that is not human.
Soon
5 stories · 248 min
A world a short step from this one.
The Crossing
1 story · 48 min
A long passage, and what it does to the people making it.
Quiet
The Friendship
4 stories · 156 min
Two people, over a long stretch of time.
The Diagnosis
5 stories · 190 min
A body failing, and the ordinary life around it.
The Long Way
3 stories · 160 min
A journey undertaken for a reason that shifts en route.
Correspondence
5 stories · 245 min
A relationship that exists only on paper.
The Water
8 stories · 369 min
A coast, a boat, or a body of water that will not be reasoned with.
Unsettling
The Double
3 stories · 137 min
Someone is being duplicated, replaced, or mistaken.
Old Practice
4 stories · 160 min
A place with customs it does not explain to visitors.
The Haunting
3 stories · 201 min
Something in the house is not settled.
The Object
3 stories · 109 min
A thing that should not be kept, kept anyway.
Something Is Off
5 stories · 307 min
The world is slightly incorrect and only one person notices.
Work
The Chance
6 stories · 263 min
Someone wants it badly enough to damage something.
The Crew
7 stories · 304 min
People bound together by a job they didn't choose each other for.
The Institution
6 stories · 327 min
A place with procedures that outlast the people in it.
The Last Shift
4 stories · 158 min
Work ending, and what it was holding together.
The Process
2 stories · 88 min
A system, and a person caught in the gears of it.