The ballot · Nine pitches · The most-marked story gets written first
Firelight Prose
Reader ballot · Spring catalogue

Which story do we
write next?

Nine pitches are on the table. Mark every one you’d read — you needn’t choose only one. The most-marked story goes into the writers’ room first.

The Luster Line — Marli and Nino on the jetty
Romance · Kimberley coast · ~34 min
The Luster Line

A debt-ridden pearl farm. A jeweler who swore off the sea. A man carrying the price of her brother’s final wave. The harvest will take something from them. You choose what.

Where shall we send word?
A Grief of Dragons — Senna and Kaien with the dragon's eye behind them
Fantasy · The isle of Skael · ~42 min
A Grief of Dragons

Senna’s patient is dead, but his grief remains, bound to his brother and the dragon they now share. She has one season to tell the truth, fuse the bond, or sever it forever.

Where shall we send word?
The Annealing — Wren and Eli in the lantern room, the Fresnel lens throwing rainbows
Literary · Coastal Maine · ~40 min
The Annealing

Wren is hiding from the accident she caused. The carpenter restoring the lighthouse beside her is hiding something worse. You decide whether the truth breaks them, or makes them stronger.

Where shall we send word?
Burn This Letter — Anne in gold at court, Cecily in red, Nicholas watching
Historical · Tudor England · ~45 min
Burn This Letter

In Anne Boleyn’s final year, a bookkeeper and the spy sent to expose her fall in love inside the machine built to destroy their queen. Choose what survives the scaffold.

Where shall we send word?
The Verdigris Hour — Céleste and Anatole in the atelier, glasshouse rising behind
Romance · Belle Époque Paris · ~36 min
The Verdigris Hour

An uncredited artist and an anonymous critic are building the Exposition’s most beautiful glasshouse. This April, you decide whose names belong on the work, and on each other.

Where shall we send word?
Valence — the MC at the Settling platform, lattice window glowing
Speculative · A managed utopia · ~38 min
Valence

The Fourteenth provides. The Sixth obeys. In a managed utopia built on silence, you must choose between the archivist teaching you to read the world and the handler sent to read you.

Where shall we send word?
Crimson Hall — Dorian and Cassius under the gothic arch
Gothic romance · Ravencrest · ~40 min
Crimson Hall

On move-in night at Ravencrest, two vampires come courting, each convinced he is the monster no one can change. Reform the brooding one, or love the wicked one exactly as he is.

Where shall we send word?
Tidewake — Caldris, the terraced reef-city in the caldera
Fantasy · The Mirrow Deep · ~44 min
Tidewake

Claire drowned and woke Saltborn in a dying city beneath the sea. Three hearts reach for hers, while the surface still holds her grieving sister. Where she belongs is yours to choose.

Where shall we send word?
Annwyl: A Hollow Song — Rena and Emrys in Dúnloren
Dark fantasy · Dúnloren · ~48 min
Annwyl: A Hollow Song

Rena read the chronicle until it broke. Now she has awakened inside its unfinished pages, unable to stay dead and holding the pen. Save the doomed clan-lord, turn the enemy, or choose the sister the story forgot.

Where shall we send word?
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