Torn World offers a unique shared world platform with flavors of science fiction, high fantasy, slipstream, steampunk and alternate realities. Two widely disparate cultures are poised to meet – a close-knit, peaceful, unicorn-herding people, and a sprawling, expansionist, pre-industrial Empire that uses time technology in a near-magic fashion. Created by Ellen Million, multiple authors and artists have used the . . .
Beyond The Photograph is a novel where the main character Jessica Wiler accepts a new job as a photographer for weddings. During her very first wedding shoot she discovers a murder in the background of the photograph and immediately takes it to authorities. After doing so her world is turned upside down. As she is trying to build a relationship . . .
Rowena has a mother: “This is my life, Mom. Not a Jane Austen novel. Not—” “Listen to me, Miss Independence. He’s a nice young man, but men expect things. Even nice ones, sometimes. He’s going to think that you’re inviting him to do . . . married people things.” Rowena tried to interrupt, but when she opened her mouth nothing came . . .
At the House of Cats, those felines who are cursed to become humans when the moon enters Leo find a safe haven between two worlds. But the House has fallen into disrepair; the cat who should be leading them has run away. She dreams of being a chef, of living as a human all the time (or at least six . . .
You find yourself in a new city, and this place isn’t like the old country town from back home. . . . This place that you’ve found yourself in has the potential to be the start of something new. As you plane fly over California, you notice the scenery and melt in this place called San Diego, not knowing what’s ahead . . . . . . .
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Torn World is a science fantasy shared world, blending motifs from science fiction and fantasy genres. Out of the Ancient civilization with its advanced temporal technology came the Upheaval, which shattered the world into many shards in which time flowed at different speeds. The modern world is slowly healing and rejoining its shards. Torn World provides a space for writers [more . . .]