Category: Fiction

The Bone Poet and God

2020-07-31 · 20 minutes

Story: Matt Dovey
Art: Matt Dovey

Who are you really, deep in your bones?

A bear climbs a mountain armed only with rune-carved bones, in search of two things: God, and the answer only she can give.

Compassionate Simulation

2020-07-31 · 10 minutes

Story: By Rachel Swirsky and P H Lee, coded by Aster Fialla
Art: Cover image via Mike MacKenzie, used under a CC BY 2.0 license and modified by sub-Q
Interactivity: Aster Fialla

—our company mission to provide grieving families with accurate, compassionate simulations of their deceased loved ones—

You! Winnifred Meyer. Remember? You are Winnifred Meyer, and you died at age twenty-six in a car accident.

Kingmaker

2020-03-31 · 10 minutes

Story: Isabel J. Kim

This is a story about ambition.

You have a number of talents and you have dreams of empire.

10+ min - Milli / Fantasy

Binary

2020-03-31 · 10 minutes

Story: Stephen Granade

One life. Two choices.

A woman must decide what to do with a digitally-uploaded person found in the wreckage of an old space station.

10+ min - Milli / Sci-Fi

The Book of Chroma

2020-01-31 · 10 minutes

Story: Sharang Biswas

Can you learn the rituals?

To regain his rank, a disgraced clergyman must relearn the rites--and do some soul-searching himself.

10+ min - Milli / Fantasy / Single / Text-Based

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Underwater Memories

2020-01-31 · 10 minutes

Story: Monica Valentinelli
Sound: various artists, remixed by Monica Valentinelli (see credits page in-game for details)
Interactivity: sub-Q

Some memories hurt. Others heal.

A swimmer struggles to regain their memories while investigating their predicament underwater.

10+ min - Milli / Mature / Sci-Fi / Text-Based

How to Build a Dragon at the End of Time

2020-01-31 · 10 minutes

Story: Ken Liu

Can you build a dragon to escape from time and space?

At the end of time and space, you are asked to build a dragon to rekindle hope in the universe.

10+ min - Milli / Fantasy / Puzzles / Sci-Fi / Text-Based

Growing Pains

2020-01-31 · 10 minutes

Story: George Lockett
Sound: "November" and "Better Days" – from Bensound (www.bensound.com)

Memories. Regrets. Gardening.

You are in the garden – a place of memories, of regrets, and of a rather peculiar plant.

10+ min - Milli

The Coffin Maker

2020-01-31 · 5 minutes

Story: Ann LeBlanc

The world is dying, and you are the COFFIN MAKER.

The world is dying, and you are the COFFIN MAKER. Decide who sleeps through the Long Winter and who must face the cold wide awake.

05+ min - Micro / Sci-Fi / Text-Based

Zoinks!

2019-11-30 · 10 minutes

Story: Elizabeth Smyth

You're getting away with it, despite those meddling kids!

When mystery-solving teens come snooping around your spooky factory, you do whatever it takes to get rid of them.

Horror / Multiple

That Night at Henry’s Place

2019-11-30 · 10 minutes

Story: Jei D. Marcade

Whatever happened to Henry?

You're fifteen. Your best friend has dragged you to a weird party in the middle of nowhere. All you want to do is leave.

Horror / Multiple / Text-Based

Night Guard / Morning Star

2019-11-30 · 20 minutes

Story: Astrid Dalmady
Art: Astrid Dalmady

Art can tell you a lot about a person.

My mother made a deal. So here I am, working the night shift, alone with her work.

Horror / Text-Based

The Soft Rumor of Spreading Weeds

2019-09-30 · 15 minutes

Story: Porpentine Charity Heartscape
Art: Lachlan Cartland

The art of dying properly.

In the garden empire, a sovereign's heart is a stubborn weed.

10+ min - Milli / Fantasy / Multiple / Text-Based

A Tragedy of Manners

2019-07-31 · 15 minutes

Story: Eleanor Hingley

Good manners cost everything.

A deadly dinner party in a baroque space opera setting, where choosing the wrong fork can be fatal.

10+ min - Milli / All Ages / Multiple / Sci-Fi / Text-Based

 
War is a Mazed Garden

2019-07-31 · 15 minutes

Story: Nin Harris

In Mazes, as with the Art of War, there is always a choice.

A member of the Yroi insurrection enters a mazed garden before the War begins.

10+ min - Milli / Sci-Fi

 
Replay

2019-05-31 · 5 minutes

Story: Robert Dawson
Art: Robert Dawson

The most useful gadget ever invented!

The Replayer lets you correct life's little mistakes, but can it be overused?

05+ min - Micro / Multiple / Sci-Fi / Text-Based