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The Cartographer of Ash

Opened by @iselde_draws

Every border Iselde draws by morning is ash by dusk. Then one of her maps begins to draw itself.

Chapters: 11
Writers: 14
Updated: Oct 19

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Genre: Mystery
Submissions Open5 accepted chapters
The Lighthouse at Vell
by @marlowe, 4 writers
The lamp at Vell went dark at midnight, and nobody asked why. Only Mara saw it still burning far out at sea — and now she is climbing the stairs she swore she never would.
Genre: Mystery
Submissions Open8 accepted chapters
The Last Train from Merrow
by @junewrites, 5 writers
The station clock stopped at 11:52, but the train came anyway — and the conductor looked at Elena as though she were late.
Genre: Science Fiction
Submissions Open7 accepted chapters
Second Moon
by @keplerkid, 11 writers
No one on Kepler Station saw the second moon rise. By morning the tides had shifted, the clocks disagreed, and the colony's founder was gone.
Genre: Romance
Voting Open9 accepted chapters
Paper Lanterns over Hollin Bay
by @maren_ink, 12 writers
Every year two strangers release a lantern from opposite shores. This year, the lanterns came back with replies.
Genre: Adventure
Voting Open10 accepted chapters
Salt & Compass
by @captain_odile, 15 writers
A mapmaker's daughter steals her father's last chart and sails for an island that only appears at low tide.
Genre: Fantasy
Submissions Open2 accepted chapters
A Demo Story
by @ronak, 2 writers
This is a demo story I am creating for testing purposes and will see how it looks like once done.
Genre: Mystery
Completed20 accepted chapters
A Murder in Marginalia
by @footnote, 18 writers
Every clue is written in the margins of library books, and the librarian is the only suspect who can read them all.
Genre: Fantasy
Completed22 accepted chapters
Briar & Bone
by @thornfield, 27 writers
A witch and the knight sent to burn her strike a bargain neither of them intends to keep.
Genre: Horror
Voting Open12 accepted chapters
Hallway Seventeen
by @lowlight, 16 writers
The hotel has sixteen floors. The elevator has a button for seventeen.
Genre: Horror
Completed24 accepted chapters
Nine Rooms on Wren Street
by @wrenhollis, 31 writers
Every night, the door was already open. Twenty-four chapters later, the town finally learned who kept opening it.
Genre: Science Fiction
Completed6 accepted chapters
Orbit of Small Mercies
by @vega_lines, 4 writers
A generation ship's last medic counts down to arrival, one impossible patient at a time.
Genre: Romance
Submissions Open4 accepted chapters
Second Floor, Left Window
by @maren_ink, 5 writers
Two neighbours who have never met trade notes taped to their windows — until one of them stops answering.

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