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• A Truce of Thorns

  Created and Curated by ken

  Past the black stone the Thornmarch begins — and the truce that keeps two realms breathing now travels with you.

  romantasyNewShort read

  ~8 pages · 3 chapters · 3 endings · 48 paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: keepsake, home region, cloak color

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• After Hours on the Floor

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  Your first night with the master keys, a dorm full of secrets, and a mystery that refuses to wait for morning.

  campus mystery-comedyNew

  ~99–101 pages · 12 chapters · 3 endings · 25M paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: hard course, best friend, dorm, mascot, campus chief

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• Between Michaelmas

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  Michaelmas rain, a great house whose ledgers do not add up, and a steward's desk that has just become yours.

  historicalNewLong read

  ~197–200 pages · 20 chapters · 3 endings · 1.6T paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: home county, kept watch, field coat, desk drink, sunday dish, letter name

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• Breakup

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  May on Lake Superior: the ice goes out of Sable Harbor and a fish tug's first net comes up on a car that has been missing since 1998 — the car of the last coroner anyone remembers.

  small-town coroner mysteryNewBook 3 of 3

  ~119–121 pages · 12 chapters · 3 endings · 21M paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: coroner car, field drink, notebook

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• Dry Season

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  Dry season hardens Saint Maris's land quarrel — and the feeling Soft Landing left unfinished.

  clean island romance-dramaNewBook 2Short read

  ~55–58 pages · 5 chapters · 3 endings · 3,072 paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: love interest, harbor town, kept token

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• Hold Music

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  Overnight phones at Relay Center 4 — and a call that stays connected after the wrap screen says it's dead.

  contemporary quiet thrillerNewShort read

  ~43–44 pages · 5 chapters · 3 endings · 3,072 paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: mug, hold track

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• Lights Out

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  An ice storm, a dead generator, four patients in the dark. And notes that keep appearing in your own handwriting.

  psychological thrillerNewBook 4 of 5Short read

  ~44–45 pages · 5 chapters · 3 endings · 3,072 paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: shift drink, break read, station name

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• Nine Days North

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  A floatplane goes down in the Boundary Waters with the first frost coming: a pilot with a broken leg, a sixteen-year-old who knows the woods, and you, with nine days and one canoe.

  wilderness survivalNew

  ~114–116 pages · 12 chapters · 3 endings · 50M paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: jacket, ration, knife name

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• Non-Player Character

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  Helix after dark runs one more build than anyone scheduled — and something inside it has started asking for you by name.

  games-studio workplace speculativeNew

  ~92–95 pages · 12 chapters · 3 endings · 38M paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: cafe, desk object

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• Salt for the Crossing

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  A sealed pouch, a night ferry, and three rules: don't open it, don't wet it, don't answer if it knocks.

  folk soft-magicNewShort read

  ~42–44 pages · 5 chapters · 3 endings · 3,072 paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: ferry name, kept charm

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• Seven Letters, Starts with L

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  You build the Sunday crossword for the Lakeshore Ledger. To save the puzzle page, you have twelve weeks to co-construct it with Theo Marchetti, the loud weekday guy you've been insulting in hidden answers for three years. The only person you really talk to is an anonymous pen pal called Downstroke.

  romantic comedyNew

  ~114–116 pages · 12 chapters · 3 endings · 50M paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: grid pen, morning drink, forum handle

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• Soft Landing

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  A short contract on Saint Maris, a careful local, and a land quarrel that guest season can't smile away.

  clean island romance-dramaNewBook 1Short read

  ~55–57 pages · 5 chapters · 3 endings · 3,072 paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: love interest, harbor town, arrival reason, kept token

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• Storm Season

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  Storm season forces Saint Maris's unfinished quarrel — and the feeling Dry Season left unfinished — into a verb about home.

  clean island romance-dramaNewBook 3

  ~59–62 pages · 5 chapters · 3 endings · 3,072 paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: love interest, harbor town, kept token

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• The Cold Lamp

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  Nobody else ran, so you're the coroner now — and the old keeper at the foot of the Cold Lamp's stairs did not simply fall.

  small-town coroner mysteryNewBook 1 of 3

  ~114–117 pages · 12 chapters · 3 endings · 484M paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: coroner car, field drink, notebook

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• The Continuance Office

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  Harlan Falls, 2051. The dead can be licensed to keep talking, and the new county registrar has forty files, one levee vote, and a late mayor whose memories somebody has been editing.

  science fictionNewLong read

  ~205–208 pages · 20 chapters · 3 endings · 1.6T paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: commute, desk tea, office plant name

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• The Grey Court

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  The Council of Lamps is letting the outer Roads go dark on purpose, the queen hasn't been seen in a year, and the map that chose which towns would be forgotten was drawn by the man walking beside you.

  epic fantasyNewBook 2 of 3Long read

  ~224–226 pages · 20 chapters · 3 endings · 1.6T paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: lantern name, trail food, keepsake

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• The Guest Book

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  Night shift at a fog-bound cliff hotel, where the guest book keeps a page for people who never checked in.

  horror-lite gothicNew

  ~89–91 pages · 12 chapters · 3 endings · 38M paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: inn name, hometown, kept key, storm drink

  Start reading →Share
• The Ice Road

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  February on Lake Superior: the ferry line's bookkeeper drove the Christmas-tree road to Sable Island and went through the ice — and the trees were not where the crew had set them.

  small-town coroner mysteryNewBook 2 of 3

  ~117–121 pages · 12 chapters · 3 endings · 13M paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: coroner car, field drink, notebook

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• The Last Cake on the Green

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  Bake-off week on the parish green — and the prize cup vanishes the night before judging.

  village cozy mysteryNewShort read

  ~43–44 pages · 5 chapters · 3 endings · 3,072 paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: parish, prize bake

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• The Last Voyage of the Verity

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  Aboard the Verity, the Thorne family's silences run deeper than the sea — and the crossing will not end the way they planned.

  mysteryNewShort read

  ~30–31 pages · 10 chapters · 3 endings · 6,144 paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: keepsake, profession, comfort food, music genre, sea creature, dining time, alcoholic beverage

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• The Lending Library of Lost Things

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  A fog-wrapped harbor town, a library that lends what people have lost, and a ledger that has been waiting for you.

  cozy literary fantasyNew

  ~88–91 pages · 12 chapters · 3 endings · 50M paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: deposit, ticket name

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• The Lighthouse

  Created and Curated by ken

  Saltwick's light has gone dark and its keeper is missing — the town would rather you didn't ask which happened first.

  mysteryNewShort read

  ~4–5 pages · 3 chapters · 3 endings · 48 paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: favorite food, companion animal

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• The Listening Post

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  A concrete station on a fog-bound cliff, wires that carry other people's secrets, and one transmission you were never meant to catch.

  literary espionage thrillerNew

  ~112–113 pages · 12 chapters · 3 endings · 13M paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: headphones, code name

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• The Long Season

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  Spring 1987, the Rio Grande Valley. You are the new baseball coach at Esperanza High, hired because nobody else applied. You have nine kids and one alternate, a field that floods when it rains, and uniforms older than your players. The district plans to close the school after this season. A winning season might keep it open.

  sports dramaNew

  ~116–119 pages · 12 chapters · 3 endings · 50M paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: vehicle, cold drink, old position

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• The Night Index

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  A night badge, a sealed cage, and a job that looks soft until the paper inside can ruin someone living.

  heist archive caperNew

  ~99–102 pages · 12 chapters · 3 endings · 25M paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: archive name, crew planner, kept tool

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• The Night Ratio

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  One nurse, two failing children, and a hospital that wants a ranking. The night will ask you to choose — and to live with it.

  contemporary medical dramaNew

  ~112–113 pages · 12 chapters · 3 endings · 50M paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: little ones animal, big kids passion, pocket token, shift fuel, home comfort, scrub color

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• The Ninth Road

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  The waystones are going out one by one, and the last Warden of the north has one old lantern, a wrong map, and a disgraced cartographer who won't say why the map is wrong.

  epic fantasyNewBook 1 of 3Long read

  ~204–206 pages · 20 chapters · 3 endings · 3.3T paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: lantern name, trail food, keepsake

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• The Other Husband

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  A woman insists the man asleep beside her is an impostor. Then your own night log starts saying things you never wrote.

  psychological thrillerNewBook 3 of 5Short read

  ~44–45 pages · 5 chapters · 3 endings · 3,072 paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: shift drink, break read, station name

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• The Salt Compact

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  A year on the salt road renewing a fragile peace — and a co-warden who makes longing into a political fact.

  romantasyNewLong read

  ~185–190 pages · 20 chapters · 3 endings · 1.6T paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: love interest, home slip, kept token, circuit cloak, seal drink, letter name

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• The Same Ship

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  Holdfast has sailed for generations toward a world nobody aboard will see. Tonight its oldest certainty comes loose on your watch.

  literary generation-ship science fictionNew

  ~101–103 pages · 12 chapters · 3 endings · 13M paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: berth plant, earth token

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• The Sealed Exhibit

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  A junior clerk finds a sealed exhibit that isn't on the inventory — and three ways to decide who the seal protects.

  legal clerkship thrillerNew

  ~97–100 pages · 12 chapters · 3 endings · 1.5B paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: courthouse, mentor, kept pen

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• The Sleeper in Room 4

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  A sleepwalker in Room 4 wakes up describing a green-tiled room that isn't on the floor plan — and your own night log says something you don't remember writing.

  psychological thrillerNewBook 1 of 5Short read

  ~40–41 pages · 5 chapters · 3 endings · 3,072 paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: shift drink, break read, station name

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• The Thirteenth of August

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  West Berlin, the last summer before the wire: a frightened archivist from the East offers a British translator eleven names, and asks for one boy in return.

  quiet Cold War espionageNew

  ~114–118 pages · 12 chapters · 3 endings · 75M paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: mission coat, cafe drink, letter name

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• The Unwritten Coast

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  A rain-soaked court, a coastline no map dares to finish, and a voyage that will redraw both the kingdom and your heart.

  romantasyNew

  ~112 pages · 12 chapters · 3 endings · 50M paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: keepsake, lost love, drawing tool, vessel, home port, coveted post, companion, haven name

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• The Water Meadow

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  The will left you a Yorkshire horse yard, a bank note, and the best grass in the parish — then a railway arrived to buy the meadow as if it were already theirs.

  period romanceNew

  ~99–101 pages · 12 chapters · 3 endings · 50M paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: yard name, kept horse, riding coat, market town

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• The Whitlow Record

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  Demolition week. A sealed room, opened after seventy years. And the kindest person in the building has something to confess.

  psychological thrillerNewBook 5 of 5Short read

  ~45–47 pages · 5 chapters · 3 endings · 3,072 paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: shift drink, break read, station name

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• The Winter Marshal

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  Wyoming Territory, 1879: the last train leaves, the snow closes the pass, and somebody in a town of three hundred wants it to starve before spring.

  snowbound frontier western mysteryNew

  ~117–120 pages · 12 chapters · 3 endings · 50M paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: hat, coffee, horse name

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• Three A.M. Voices

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  Every night at 3:04 a widower wakes to his late wife calling his name. The recording hears nothing. You heard it too.

  psychological thrillerNewBook 2 of 5Short read

  ~45 pages · 5 chapters · 3 endings · 3,072 paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: shift drink, break read, station name

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• Where the Map Ends

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  Past the last village on the Survey's map, an unlit road runs into the grey, and at the end of it is the thing the Wendmark chose to forget.

  epic fantasyNewBook 3 of 3Long read

  ~231–233 pages · 20 chapters · 3 endings · 1.6T paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: lantern name, trail food, keepsake

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