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2nd September 2026

The Unwritten Heart

She paints what she dreams. She doesn't yet know her dreams are someone else's unfinished story.

Gothic romance meets Arabian mythology in this excerpt from a longer work-in-progress. Lydia Devereux has spent her whole life haunted by visions she can't explain - until a stranger arrives at her family's decaying estate speaking of deserts, djinn, and a manuscript her mother left unfinished. What begins as a strange encounter in the gardens becomes the first thread in a much larger, more dangerous story.

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2nd September 2026

Runner

Some storms don't just kill you. They learn your heartbeat first.

A dystopian sci-fi short following Jonathan, a "Runner" navigating deadly, processor-generated storms with his partner Mark - communicating not through words, but through a private code of tugs and signals down a shared anchor line. When the storm turns unpredictable, that code becomes the only thing standing between trust and disaster.

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1st September 2026

Before the Sky Falls

The world has hours left. It might still be enough time to find someone worth losing.

As nuclear missiles hurtle towards Chicago, a disgraced former riot officer and an introverted veterinary nurse are thrown together during humanity's final hours. Before the Sky Falls is an apocalyptic romance about guilt, connection and finding something worth holding onto when there is no hope of survival.

Eddie Mendoza, DeviantArt

1st September 2026

Progeny - TV Pilot/Video Game Concept

Six Champions. Six destinies. One arena - and a world built on a lie.

An original science-fantasy game concept adapted into a television pilot, Progeny follows six strangers whose individual paths converge around a deadly contest, an approaching war and the return of gods their world has spent centuries trying to forget.

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1st September 2026

Le Cirque Éternel - Television Series Bible

Collaborative University Project | Year 2

Trapped in an eternal travelling circus, a plagued clairvoyant seeks to uncover the dark mysteries of her lineage, whilst trying to survive past curtain call.

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1st September 2026

No You Didn't - Screenplay

He taught her the rules of the forest. He never taught her what happens when you break them.

A horror screenplay rooted in Cherokee and Appalachian folklore - ten-year-old Skye and her father Matthew stumble into something ancient in the Great Smoky Mountains, and Matthew must choose between his daughter and the price the forest demands.

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1st September 2026

Ólmr

Grief has a voice. Hers just happens to be a goddess of war.

A Norse-mythology short story of vengeance and inheritance - a young shieldmaiden's ordinary day of wolf-hunting fractures into horror when raiders descend on her village. As rage and grief consume her, an ancient presence answers the call.

Content note: this piece contains heavy implications of sexual violence.

Richenne, Pinterest

1st September 2026

Galestone Abbey

A haunting of the mist and the heart.

A Gothic romance in the tradition of Wuthering Heights - Miss Farraday arrives at Galestone Abbey for a week of courtship with the enigmatic Lord Thatcher, only to find herself drawn toward a second, stranger presence haunting the manor's halls. Illness, obsession, and a portrait that won't stay still blur the line between suitor and spirit.

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1st September 2026

Don't Look in the Trees (Pt. II)

Some names, once called from the trees, are better left unanswered.

Robin is gone, and something in the woods knows Skye's name. A desperate chase through the dark Appalachian trail becomes a reckoning with what her father really left behind — and what's been waiting in the trees all along.

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1st September 2026

Don't Look in the Trees (Pt. I)

A father she never really knew; forces she can't ever understand.

Skye finds her late father's journal and its unraveling account of the thing he believed was hunting him - and the old Cherokee warnings that came with it. A quiet night at a remote Appalachian cabin, an old friendship, and the slow, creeping realization that some family stories aren't meant to be inherited.

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1st September 2026

Welcome

Some hotels don't need locked doors. They just need you to stay.

A gothic supernatural short story reimagining The Eagles' "Hotel California" - a desert mirage, a church turned den of eternal indulgence, and a man who checks in only to learn that some doors only open one way.

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1st September 2026

A Memory

Some days, the sun on your skin is the only thing telling the truth.
(TW: suicidal ideation)

A piece of short, personal narrative fiction exploring one unbearable afternoon — and the strange, quiet beauty that can exist right alongside the worst moment of a life. Content note: this piece touches on suicidal ideation.