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Coming of Age

St. Elmo

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Mature

Adventure

St. George for England

Cold November rain had emptied the Southwark road when a young woman carrying a child knocked at your cottage.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Mystery

St. Ronan's Well

A solitary rider entered the courtyard of Meg Dods's declining inn on a fine summer day and handed his tired horse to the aged, humpbacked hostler.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Sci-Fi & Gaming

Stella Fregelius

Morris Monk watched stars above the grey sea and wondered how far force might travel through the ether without a receiver.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Adventure

Steve Young

Captain Hendal faced your party on the Norwegian wharf and demanded permission to speak without courtesy.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Adventure

Such Is Life

You are revisiting a single line from your own 1883 diary — Thompson, Cooper, the Ten-Mile Pines — and turning memory back into a night on the road.

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Mature

Coming of Age

Summer

You are Charity Royall, keeper of a library nobody visits in a town too small for you.

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Mature

Social Protest

Sunshine Bill

William Sunnyside grew up among a large family, an apple stall, a wherry, and parents who kept kindness alive when the cash-box was empty.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Adventure

Swallow: A Tale of the Great Trek

After four days of south-east gale, Vrouw Botmar climbed the kopje with seven-year-old Suzanne to watch the breakers strike the cliffs.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Money & Power

Sybil

You play Charles Egremont on the eve of the Derby, in a gilded saloon where every acquaintance measures your character by the horse you back.

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Mature

Period Romance

Sylvia's Lovers

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Mature

Social Protest

Temporal Power

A king of a southern realm sat in a marble pavilion facing the sea with state papers waiting unopened on his table.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Literary Drama

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

You play Tess Durbeyfield, the one red ribbon in a line of white dresses at the May dance in Marlott.

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Mature

Adventure

Thaddeus of Warsaw

War reached Poland while Villanow still held the order created by Palatine Constantine Sobieski and his freed tenants.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Adventure

The Abbot

Nearly ten childless years had passed since the Lady of Avenel married Sir Halbert Glendinning.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Money & Power

The Absentee

You play Lord Colambre, back from Cambridge to a mother spending herself into a London season nobody respects.

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Teen

Literary Drama

The Actress' Daughter: A Novel

A light burns in the ruined house beyond Miss Jerusha Skamp's snowbound cottage.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Mature

Adventure

The Adventures of a Brownie

The family had long set Brownie's nightly milk just inside the cellar, where its small household guardian hid.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Adventure

The Adventures of Captain Horn

A spring tornado struck the Castor before the morning observation and left the schooner rolling without mast or rudder.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Adventure

The Adventures of Don Lavington

A sugar hogshead descended within inches of your head before Jem's shout stopped Mike at the crane.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Adventure

The Adventures of Harry Richmond

Near two in the morning, the outer bell and blows on the hall door tore you from a dream of fire.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Literary Drama

The Age of Innocence

New York in the 1870s runs on what is not said, and the opera house is where it gets decided.

Complete · 18 chapters · Mature

Period Romance

The Amazing Marriage

Before dawn, you and Chillon sat awake in the stripped mountain house, your packed boxes already sent toward England.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Literary Drama

The Ambassadors

You play Lambert Strether, sent to Europe to bring Chad Newsome home from Paris and whatever has kept him there.

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Mature