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Some of my more interesting ideas.

Cultist Simulator:
Cat Caro
"Of course I dreamt it," she answered, as if it was perfectly obvious. As if it was perfectly ordinary to dream of a whole day before living it.
Featuring: Cat Caro, Hired Muscle
Elements: Intrigue, Mystery
A knife-wielding mercenary and the titular soothsayer explore a rotting house inhabited by a great serpent and a hidden door.
These would be impossible obstacles--if Cat Caro hadn't seen it all in her dreams.
Characters from Weather Factory's incredible Cultist Simulator game.
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American Sunset:
Disbelief
My name is Isaiah Colwell, and I submit that these stories you hear are worth just about as much as a bit of spare ear’s wax.
Featuring: Isaiah Colwell, Sheriff Hammond
Elements: Mystery, Old West
A farmer's boy firmly disbelieves the tales about supernatural creatures, magic, and strange happenings that are told about the small town of Silver Springs. His disbelief is magical too.
Written for a few friends' Kickstarter campaign.
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Zelda:
Sad Songs
Maybe if I'd snared you then, when you were still my Wolfy, you'd still be mine and this world of twilight would be a little less dark.
Featuring: Zelda, Link, Saria, Midna, Ruto, Nabooru, Malon
Elements: Romance, Longing
A series of letters and journal entries written by some of the heroines over the Zelda games, expressing their feelings towards the Hero of Time.
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Originals

Completed original works.

American Sunset:
Disbelief
My name is Isaiah Colwell, and I submit that these stories you hear are worth just about as much as a bit of spare ear’s wax.
Featuring: Isaiah Colwell, Sheriff Hammond
Elements: Mystery, Old West
A farmer's boy firmly disbelieves the tales about supernatural creatures, magic, and strange happenings that are told about the small town of Silver Springs. His disbelief is magical too.
Written for a few friends' Kickstarter campaign.
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Real Magic
Nathan had seen it all before: two assistants would be involved, pressed together to pretend they were just one, and so the saw would go straight between.
Featuring: The Detective, The Faust
Elements: Horror, Magic, Intrigue
A man disillusioned with stage magic wants to see real magic, just once. It turns out to be a very unfortunate wish.
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Sea Songs
He heard it fifth under the water, trilling and sweet, and he watched as the singer approached. Slender, ethereal, snakelike. Glittering scales...
Featuring: The Seaman, The Mermaid
Elements: Romance
A man finds his cheerful sea shanty echoed back across the waves to him, and meets his aquatic admirer.
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Fanfiction

Works featuring others' characters.

Cultist Simulator:
Cat Caro
"Of course I dreamt it," she answered, as if it was perfectly obvious. As if it was perfectly ordinary to dream of a whole day before living it.
Featuring: Cat Caro, Hired Muscle
Elements: Intrigue, Mystery
A knife-wielding mercenary and the titular soothsayer explore a rotting house inhabited by a great serpent and a hidden door.
These would be impossible obstacles--if Cat Caro hadn't seen it all in her dreams.
Characters from Weather Factory's incredible Cultist Simulator game.
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Darker than Black:
I Dream
A doll is not supposed to dream; this is common knowledge and I never found any reason to doubt it until I met Hei.
Featuring: Yin, Hei
Elements: Romance, Longing
The blind Doll Yin hesitates as she "watches" her companion Hei sleep, conflicted by her feelings for him. For after all, Dolls do not feel. Do they?
Characters from the Darker than Black Anime.
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Cultist Simulator:
Victor and Rose
There was a secret to the path a knife followed: just as a traveler followed the best-worn paths... so a knife took the path of least resistance.
Featuring: Rose, Victor
Elements: Horror, Intrigue, Romance
Victor and Rose, sibling knife-wielding killers, find their way unerringly to the service of somone who will change everything--them foremost.
Characters from Weather Factory's incredible Cultist Simulator game.
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Zelda:
Sad Songs
Maybe if I'd snared you then, when you were still my Wolfy, you'd still be mine and this world of twilight would be a little less dark.
Featuring: Zelda, Link, Saria, Midna, Ruto, Nabooru, Malon
Elements: Romance, Longing
A series of letters and journal entries written by some of the heroines over the Zelda games, expressing their feelings towards the Hero of Time.
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Hooks

Bite-sized ideas designed to inspire a larger story... one day.

Death is No Escape
I turned away when the Death King pointed his finger at me, and I think I'll always regret that.
Featuring: Hero
Elements: Loss, Morality, Magic
The Hero finds himself utterly at a loss when the Lich King is defeated. What is a hero to do when evil has been extinguished? What is he to do but to concern himself with bringing back the souls he's lost?
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Did it Hurt When you Fell From Heaven?
The angel sat perched in the hospital window, looking at the cocky patient with an expression of worry on her face.
Featuring: The Playboy, The Angel
Elements: Romance, Intrigue
A playboy suffers an incredible injury, one that should have easily killed him--and yet he walks right out of it with almost superficial damage. He doesn't seem concerned but the Angel who came down from Heaven to collect his soul--who claims he was supposed to die--is.
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Sea Songs
He heard it fifth under the water, trilling and sweet, and he watched as the singer approached. Slender, ethereal, snakelike. Glittering scales...
Featuring: The Seaman, The Mermaid
Elements: Romance
A man finds his cheerful sea shanty echoed back across the waves to him, and meets his aquatic admirer.
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Real Magic
Nathan had seen it all before: two assistants would be involved, pressed together to pretend they were just one, and so the saw would go straight between.
Featuring: The Detective, The Faust
Elements: Horror, Magic, Intrigue
A man disillusioned with stage magic wants to see real magic, just once. It turns out to be a very unfortunate wish.
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Harem
"Don't get me wrong! I think it's charming. He's so uncoordinated!" She smiled at the busboy, now apologizing to his manager, and shrugged when she caught Mika's stare. "What? It is."
Elements: Romance, Intrigue
A gaggle of girls make eyes at their waiter while the last girl wonders what makes him so special.
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Heracles
I don't know what the three witches promised him, and I didn't know what they took in return. But I know Heracles wouldn't speak a word of it to us--his closest allies--afterwards.
Featuring: Heracles
Elements: Mystery
A medieval larger-than-life hero's companion and ally explains his downfall as he is put on trial for the hero's murder. He insists that the killing was more than moral--it was necessary.
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Max Hard Noir
Heads turned. Eyes widened. The handsome dame at the third desk blushed and bit her lip. Max Hardgrove, six feet tall minus his half-cocked trilby, had that effect.
Featuring: Elijah Wesson, Max "Hard" Noir
Elements: Intrigue, Murder, Trope inversion
A hardboiled detective playing to all the Noir cliches is assigned a straight-laced partner who begins to discover that reality seems to be adapting to the detective's illusions.
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Tinker, Spellcaster
A carpenter? He'd never so much as hammered a nail. He knew a spell that could do the trick, as sure as he knew one that could twist his neck so far and so quick he'd never feel a thing.
Featuring: The Damned
Elements: Magic, Rebirth
A sorcerer haunted by his past searches for a place to die. Instead he is rescued by a struggling outland town that claims him and declares him a new man.
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Frugal Lord
"You..." she paused, trying to come to terms with what she'd just heard. She stared at the empty room. "You live like this?"
He just cocked his head. "Yes, why?"
Featuring: The Hero, The Princess
Elements: Humor
A princess captured by the evil Demon lord discovers his bare-bones, no-frills life.
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Isekai Slave Delivery
"Just what an unfair and dishonorable man would say," the slave girl interrupted. "I'd prefer you'd told me you were a dirty thief: then at least I'd believe you."
Featuring: The Villain, The Princess
Elements: Humor, Trope inversion
A man born again into a fantasy realm orders a slave girl to live out his fantasies of being a savior--but finds her utterly unimpressed.
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Requiem
The second time, it was in the den of his father's home while the old man's revolver slowly slipped from his wrinkled hand. By then, he was hooked.
Featuring: The Scientist
Elements: Horror, Intrigue
A man hears a terrible, wonderful melody when the soul leaves the body. Of course he endeavors to hear it again.
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