Interactive stories where you choose what happens

Ex-husband, back from the alien ship

Five years ago he left you for the alien ship without a word. It sent him home, and it wants one more guest.

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Guess the fae's name

You can trace any family back four hundred years. The fae you must name by Samhain has no family on any record.

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The Queenmaker

Seven royals ahead of you fell in one night to secrets the spymaster swears are true. Now he kneels and calls you Majesty.

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Magic

Witches upstairs

Your great-aunt's will leaves you five lodgers the law calls criminals. On Hogmanay, New Year's Eve, the census man knocks on every door, yours included.

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Treasure, Published

Grandpa's secret treasure map is on every front page in Scotland, and two hundred cars are racing you into the glen.

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Magic

You Woke Up Married to the Rival Alchemist

You wake on the lab floor wearing your rival's ring. A working gone wrong took the night, and neither of you remembers the wedding.

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The vampire college admits its first human

Every student at the night college is a vampire but you, and your guide is the heir who voted to keep you out. Forty nights.

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Counterfeit Countess

You married the earl in your runaway mistress's veil, and he knew at once. On the full moon you learn why she ran.

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Juror Seven Is Next

Each morning one fewer juror comes down to breakfast, and tonight the note under your door names you.

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Robbed as written

The museum was robbed exactly as your unpublished chapter one describes. Chapter two puts the night guard in the river.

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Lost princess, found by rival

The prince to be crowned in thirty days rows to your ferry landing to tell you the crown was always yours.

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Sci-Fi

The Tenth Astronaut

The shuttle home seats nine. There are ten of you, and two men answer to the engineer's name.

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The academy mourns you

Your face hangs on the conservatory's memorial wall, and the man who survived that winter walked out when he saw you.

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Your Bodyguard Has a Second Contract

Your bodyguard has saved you twice this week. Tonight you find the other contract in his jacket, signed before you met.

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Three Gentlemen Swear They Were the Man on the Terrace

By breakfast all of London knows about the masked kiss, and three gentlemen wait in your parlor, each swearing he was the man in the mask.

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Magic

Every Witch Lost Her Magic, and You Have It

At dawn the whole city's magic is in your hands, and the strongest warlock in Boston wants his share back by the new moon.

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Scanned the Wolf, Found the Man

The chip you put in a wounded wolf last night beeps in a stranger's shoulder. Hunting season opens in fourteen days.

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Pirates Included

The pirates were still in the hold when you bought the ship, and by their code you are their captain now.

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The suspect sees your ghost

Only the man in cell four can hear you, and the police say he pushed you off Pier Nine.

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My dead sister is racing today under another name

Your sister died in an avalanche three years ago. This morning she is on the start list for Norway.

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The avalanche man lies

You dig a stranger out of the snow. Everything he says is a lie. That night, someone cuts the only wire to the valley.

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Only you hear the downed airship

The papers say they are all dead. At 4 a.m. your headphones say six men are alive.

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Twenty Contenders, One Prince, No King

Twenty contenders, forty days, one prince who watches you. The wire says his father is dead. He still toasts him.

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Don't take that mural down

Eight musicians on a famous wall. A ninth under the paint. Take it down, and she's gone for good.

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Fireworks feud

Your families haven't spoken since 1976. Now you share one show, one barge, and a shell someone cut.

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The Poison Gardener, Poisoned

You know four hundred poisons by heart. The one killing you isn't one of them. Fourteen days to name it.

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Arson Homecoming

The barn fire was no accident. The state inspector wants your brother. The man who left you wants you off the case.

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Her last two apprentices

She picked two apprentices. She told each of you a different story about the fire.

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Two Rivals Below

They say your mentor is dead. His rope says someone wanted him that way. You and your rival go down to find out.

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Fifth Passenger

Four tourists board at dawn. You never look away. You land with five.

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The Warlord Sweeps Floors

The general who burned your valley chose his penance: three years sweeping your floors. He can leave any morning. If he does, his soldiers stand trial.

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The Proposal Crossword

Half of Baltimore is solving your proposal. You never wrote it.

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The Missing Critic's Ghostwriter

For eight years you wrote her reviews in secret. Now she's gone, and the chef she ruined is at your door.

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Romantasy

The flood was someone's wish

The man who won the last wish hasn't aged a day. That wish drowned your street. Now he wants to hire your boat.

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Sci-Fi

Woken Forty Years Early

You wake forty years early on the Meridian. The only other person awake says he has been alone for forty years.

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Sir Aldric Enlists Again

He fights with your secret move. He has the statue's face. He wants to know who broke the vow.

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Your spell predates you

Your best spell is a month old. Someone carved it a thousand years ago. In your hand.

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Beastqueen

Every monster in the kingdom bows to you. Your guild wants to know why. So do you.

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Miracles from a dead god

You find the god dead in his crypt. Upstairs, the bells ring for a fresh miracle.

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Make her happy, djinn

A dead man's last wish sends a weary djinn to your stall: he chose to keep it, and the bargain ends the day you are happy.

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I cured the vampire

Four hundred years undead. One sleeping draught. Now his heart beats, and he has fifty days.

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The Spring Heir Is Hiding in Your Icehouse

Two hundred days of winter. The only warm thing in the city hides in your icehouse.

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Pawned Heart

A jar of love in your vault has your name on it. The man who pawned it has no idea who you are.

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Sci-Fi

Clone Governor

You wake after twenty years. Your face is on every poster. You never ran for anything.

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Forty Days Under Siege

The army at your gate flies your family's banner. Relief rides in forty days, if your walls and your people hold that long.

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Every Witness You Hide Gets Found

Four witnesses you relocated this year were found within a week, and only your files knew where. Your last one testifies in thirty days.

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Treaty Bride

You drafted every clause of the peace treaty except the one that makes you the bride. Signing is in twenty days.

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Ghostwritten Fiancée

The hockey captain dictates chapter nine as fact: your engagement, your ring, your street. The publisher prints it in thirty days.

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Romantasy

Your Spells Heal the Enemy Prince

He is the prince of the kingdom you swore to hate. In forty-nine days the seventh trial needs one victor, or the truce breaks.

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